‘Game of Thrones’ season 7: How long is production meant to last?

“Winter Is Coming” long has served as a message and calling card for “Game of Thrones,” and for the upcoming seventh season more than any other, they’ve really figured out ways to embrace the season. The HBO series started filming later, and they will continue production through the winter months.

Recently, we published an article quoting star Iain Glen (Ser Jorah) in which he made it clear that even though the upcoming seventh season is only running for seven episodes, they were taking just as much time to do as a standard ten-episode season of the show. This gives you a better sense of the sort of scale that is coming up, both in terms of battle scenes, elaborate sequences, and potentially throwing a large number of characters together on the screen at the same time. N

Do we know what is coming up? Not so much, since the show for the first time is completely ahead of the books. Yet, it is fair to assume that eventually forces are going to collide in King’s Landing for the Iron Throne, just as it is also fair to assume that the White Walkers will command more attention than ever. In between these two locations plus whatever happens at sea given the collision course that we could see there, it’s not too hard to figure out precisely how epic the scale of the new season is going to be.

According to Entertainment Weekly, production for the show is continuing until February, and that is the first time that we’ve heard a specific timeframe for it. This means that the show will likely have four or five months after this to start getting things further together before the start of the new season airs on HBO. With “The Leftovers” not premiering until April, all signs right now suggest that in either June or July, the seventh season will be upon us.

Are there are particular battles that you are expecting to see over the next “Game of Thrones” season? Be sure to share now in the attached comments! (Photo: HBO.)