'Game of Thrones' Season 7 Includes Some Long Episodes
by EG
The long night is coming — and so is the longest episode of Game of Thrones ever, according to showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss.
The executive producers and masterminds behind all things Westeros are only issuing seven installments for the show's upcoming seventh season, as opposed to the traditional 10-episode order. With that said, the shortened season will include two episodes that are "considerably over 60" minutes, including an episode that clocks in as the longest Game of Thrones outing to date, according to Benioff and Weiss.
"It always amazed me when I watched Breaking Bad and they could get every episode so perfect and they would all be like 42 minutes and 40 seconds or something," Benioff told EW in a recent interview. "Which is its own separate skill amongst everything else that went into making a show that [creator] Vince Gilligan and his team were able to do. One of the things we're lucky about is we don’t have the same pressure. We have one episode that’s coming in around 90 minutes and another that’s going to be our shortest episode at 50 minutes. Those episodes are better [at] those lengths but I'm glad we didn't have the additional pressure Vince had."
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Game of Thrones stars Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, and Kit Harrington.