What Game of Thrones season 8 is doing to avoid script spoilers
How much do they want to do that? We knew already that there were some interesting tactics that they were taking, including hiring additional security and also supposedly filming multiple endings — an idea that apparently irked one of their own cast members who wasn’t altogether sold on the idea of doing this.
Now, we’ve also learned that there is an extremely strict protocol being put in place in order to further ensure that nobody reads some of these scripts earlier than they absolutely have to. Speaking in a new interview with IGN actor Liam Cunningham did his part to explain some of the steps that are being put in place by HBO already:
“I got six of [the scripts], I’ve got them all, but I can’t open them because of all the security, and I can’t walk it out.”
What Cunningham is effectively referring to with these comments are some of the digital scripts that are out there right now for the final season. They can only be opened apparently at the right place at the right time, and they’re making sure everyone who sees them are people who have to in order to do their job. Clearly the network isn’t messing around with spoilers, and they shouldn’t — this protects their investment more, since the last thing that they want to do is allow some people out there to be able to spoil the show that they worked so hard to make.
Hopefully the majority of the show will remain unspoiled but even if it doesn’t, we do still think that season 8 will be the most successful one to date. Even when there were full episodes of the show that leaked in advance we still saw Game of Thrones set ratings records for HBO. There’s no reason to think that this is going to be different at all in the final season, especially since there is a whole lot of time for fans to be able to catch up who are actually behind watching the show. The final season, at least at the moment, is not planning on coming on the air until either late 2018 or early 2019. That offers up all sorts of opportunities for viewers to get themselves to the same point in the story.
Given that we haven’t got anywhere near the Game of Thrones series finale date just yet, there’s a reasonably good chance we could see everything escalate by that point.
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