'Game of Thrones': HBO teases final season release date, cancels four spinoffs

Game of Thrones is set to return the ‘first half’ of 2019, HBO’s programming president Casey Bloys revealed.

The principal photography of the final six episodes of Game of Thrones also just wrapped, prompting fans to predict a spring start date for season 8.

Each final episode has an estimated budget of $15 million (£11.4 million), some of which are rumoured to be feature-length.

Will there be a Game of Thrones spinoff?

Originally five Game of Thrones spinoffs were in the works, with GOT author George R. R. Martin confirming they would all be prequels.

However, Bloys has also just revealed at the Television Critics Association HBO will only be moving forward with one spin-off. “There are no plans to make any others at this point,” he confirmed.

“The reason we did multiple scripts, in the development process, [is] out of five we’d be lucky to get one we’re excited about,” he added.

The spin-off, unofficially named, Golden Age of Heroes, is a project co-written by Jane Goldman and George R. R. Martin. Its official logline is as follows:

“Taking place thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series chronicles the world’s descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour. And only one thing is for sure: from the horrifying secrets of Westeros’ history to the true origin of the white walkers, the mysteries of the East to the Starks of legend…it’s not the story we think we know.”

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