In the lead up to the highly anticipated seventh season of Game Of Thrones, we’re hungry for every morsel of information we can get regarding Westeros and its inhabitants.
The latest? We can expect some long episodes this season, despite there only being seven episodes in total.
“We have two episodes over 60 minutes this year,” showrunner Dan Weiss told EW.
“One will be our longest episode ever — it’s coming in around 90 minutes,” showrunner David Benioff added.
Season seven will also have the shortest episode coming in at just 50 minutes.
The previous longest episode was the season six finale “The Winds of Winter” which came in at 69 minutes.
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister.
When you think about the fact, that during those 69 minutes we saw a church blow up, half the population of King’s Landing perish, Daenerys make her way to Westeros, the origins of Jon Snow’s birth, Arya stark exact her revenge on Walder Frey (by making him eat his own sons in a pie – so gross!) and Cersie take the Iron Throne – just imagine what the showrunners could accomplish with an extra 15 minutes or so!
The expected run times, according to Watchers On The Wall are:
Episode 1: 59 minutes
Episode 2: 59 minutes
Episode 3: 63 minutes
Episode 4: 50 minutes
Episode 5: 59 minutes
Episode 6: 71 minutes
Episode 7: 81 minutes
When you do the maths, that’s 7 hours and 20 minutes of Game Of Thrones in total for season seven. While it’s less that the average of 9 hours and 15 minutes of the previous seasons, the average episode length is longer at 63 mins.
Numbers aside, the bottom line is we are going a little bit crazy in the wait for more Game Of Thrones… Bring on July 17 already.
