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In an exclusive interview with Variety, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss said they are weighing wrapping up
 the Emmy-winning saga of Westeros and the battle for the Iron Throne with just 13 more episodes once this sixth season
is over: seven episodes for season 7; six for the eighth and potential final season.

“I think we’re down to our final 13 episodes after this season. We’re heading into the final lap,” said Benioff.
“That’s the guess, though nothing is yet set in stone, but that’s what we’re looking at.”

Sources later clarified those exact numbers were premature, given that the showrunners are now just beginning to
outline their plans, but said that any upcoming seasons may be shorter than the full 10 episodes of seasons past.

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HBO programming president Michael Lombardo acknowledged the showrunners’ plan to wind down the series with two more years.
“That’s my understanding from them right now, those have been the conversations we’ve had,” he says. “Because where these narratives go,
it feels like another two years to them. As a television executive, as a fan, do I wish they said another six years? I do.”But, he added, “I’m always
an optimist, and I do believe we will figure this out.”

But, he added, “I’m always an optimist, and I do believe we will figure this out.”

While the “Game of Thrones” showrunners said the shorter-episode scenario is their hope, HBO executives made it clear there’s no deal yet
in place. “We’re still in conversations,” said Lombardo

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“There is certainly no lack of material,” Martin told EW. “Every episode of The Naked City – one of the television
shows I watched as a kid – ended with a voice-over: ‘There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has
been one of them.’ There are eight million stories in Westeros as well … and even more in Essos and the lands
beyond. A whole world full of stories, waiting to be told… if indeed HBO is interested.”

Martin has a suggestion: “The most natural follow-up would be an adaptation of my Dunk & Egg stories,” he notes.

The Dunk & Egg stories are a series of novellas set in the same world of A Song of Ice and Fire as Game of Thrones,
except they place roughly 90 years earlier than the time of characters like Tyrion, Daenerys, and Arya. The stories
follow a “hedge knight” (nomadic; doesn’t own land) Ser Duncan the Tall, who would later become a member of
the Kingsguard, and his squire Egg, who later becomes King Aegon V Targaryen of Westeros. There are a trio of novellas
in the series so far (collected in the anthology A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), with many more planned.

“Each of the novellas could easily be done as a two-hour stand-alone movie for television; that would probably be the
ideal way to do them, rather than as an ongoing weekly series,” Martin says. “The Hedge Knight& and its sequels are
lighter [in tone] than A Song of Ice and Fire, more in the realm of action/adventure.”

For stories closer in tone to Thrones, a network would need to go back further in Westeros history – perhaps to the
Targaryen civil war (a.k.a. “the Dance of the Dragons”), Martin said, or to other events chronicled in his “history”
collection, A World of Ice and Fire.

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