'Game Of Thrones' Season 8 Is Likely Not Happening Until 2019

There's been rumblings for a while that Season 8 of "Game of Thrones" wouldn't be airing until 2019, two years after the Season 7 finale. Now, the biggest clue yet that the show would be on such a long hiatus has arrived.

While appearing at Stockholm Comic Con last month, Iain Glen, who portrays Ser Jorah Mormont, admitted that production on the show's final season, despite there being fewer episodes, was going to take longer than usual because the main characters' storylines are starting to converge and occupy the same space, which means multiple scene can no longer be shot at the same time.

"We're all starting to occupy the same territory, we're all starting to be in the same storylines and so they can't [have two filming units] anymore," he said.

The show is rumored to be looking into a 10 month long filming period, which is twice as long as the usual amount of time. However, previous seasons have seen all of the characters in wildly different locations throughout the fictional world of Westeros—and that has meant filming different scenes was possible because actors would be in entirely different countries while filming scenes. While those who were in warmer climates on the show were often filming in places like Spain, those in colder climates were filming in Iceland and other locations.

Now, however, most of the show's characters are centrally located in the fictional Northern region of Westeros, particularly Winterfell or somewhere else nearby. Because that would mean everyone's scenes are now being filmed in one location, Glen asserted that it means scenes cannot be filmed concurrently, the way it used to be done. Now, they would need to be filmed more along the lines of one at a time.

"I think that 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," he said.

However, there was some other good news for fans that could hopefully mean that the show may have a chance at coming back in 2018, albeit late in the year.

Glen also revealed that they were returning for the first table read on Oct. 9, which would mean production is officially beginning for the show's final season. If it does take 10 months to film, that would mean production would end by early August 2018. Depending on how long the editing process takes, it could give the show a small chance at a late 2018 air date.

However, with the special effects graphics and CGI that often goes into scenes, it will likely be a lengthy editing process as well, meaning that 2019 is the most likely year for a final season.

As for what fans could expect in the final season, Glen didn't have any answers, only saying he hopes things turn out in one of two ways for his character.

"[I] would just be happy to be alive and in what I imagine is going to be a massive battle [in which] I then survive or die nobly," he said.