--- title: Game of Thrones Season 8 Filming Delay Explained description: The Night King may have finally brought down the Wall in Game of Thrones, but fans won't get to see what his next move is for quite a while. canonical: https://time.com/4970783/game-of-thrones-season-8-release-date/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-05T16:46:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:48.761Z og:title: Why You're Going to Be Waiting 'Longer' for Game of Thrones og:description: The show's return is rumored to be slated for 2019 og:url: https://time.com/4970783/game-of-thrones-season-8-release-date/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bce9ba4376fe1b5/6988db76ab6d77198d6af91e/game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wold-04.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-arya-sansa-stark-04 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why You're Going to Be Waiting 'Longer' for Game of Thrones twitter:description: The show's return is rumored to be slated for 2019 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bce9ba4376fe1b5/6988db76ab6d77198d6af91e/game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wold-04.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Real Reason You're Going to Be Waiting 'Much Longer' for _Game of Thrones_ Season 8  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 5, 2017 4:46 PM UTC  HBO  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 5, 2017 4:46 PM UTC The [Night King](http://time.com/4909961/game-of-thrones-bran-stark-night-king/) may have brought down [the Wall](http://time.com/4912209/game-of-thrones-wall-history-magic/) in the final scene of [_Game of Thrones_‘](http://time.com/game-of-thrones-2017/) seventh season, but it looks like fans won’t get to see what his next move is for quite a while. According to Iain Glen — who plays Jorah Mormont on the HBO drama — the converging storylines of the show’s many characters is turning the filming of season eight into an extended process. “We’re all starting to occupy the same territory,” he told [RadioTimes](http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-10-05/game-of-thrones-season-eight-has-a-read-through-date/) at Comic Con Stockholm. “We’re all starting to be in the same storylines and so they can’t \[have two filming units\] anymore. I think this last season will take much longer to shoot because they can only use one unit because we’re all in the same sort of scenes.” At this point in time, a season eight premiere date has not been announced. However, the final six episodes are rumored to be slated for 2019, meaning viewers still have more than a year to obsess over every detail from the past seven seasons. 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