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Get excited, Game of Thrones obsessives: There will be at least eight seasons of the HBO series you know and love. Entertainment Weekly reports that HBO president Michael Lombardo debunked the rumors that the show would bow out at seven seasons—and there might even be more to come from Westeros.
"The question is: How much beyond seven are we going to do?" Lombardo said during a Television Critics Association event. "Obviously we're shooting six now, hopefully discussing seven. [The showrunners] feel like there's two more years after six. I would always love for them to change their minds, but that's what we're looking at right now."
Lombardo, who knows a hit when he sees one, also seemed open to the idea of a prequel series, set in George R. R. Martin's complex world. Though conversations haven't started yet, he thinks "there's enormous storytelling to be mined" if that's what the creative team wants to do.
But sad news for conspiracy theorists who are sure that Jon Snow didn't really die at the end of the last season. "Dead is dead is dead," Lombardo said. "He be dead. Um, yes. Everything I've seen, heard and read, Jon Snow is indeed dead." Of course, that's what someone who would want to hide a surprise Jon Snow return would say. Would Kit Harington really have kept his hair long otherwise?
