Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow in the first glimpse of Game of Thrones' final season

Entertainment Weekly

Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington grace the cover of EW's first look at Season 8. “It’s relentless; scenes that would have been a one-day shoot five years ago are now a five-day shoot,” says Harington. “They want to get it right, they want to shoot everything every single way so they have options.” Clarke adds that camera "checks take longer, costumes are a bit better, hair and makeup a bit sharper — every choice, every conversation, every attitude, has this air of ‘this is it.’ Everything feels more intense.” Meanwhile, co-executive producer Bryan Cogman describes the final season as "all of these disparate characters coming together to face a common enemy, dealing with their own past, and defining the person they want to be in the face of certain death. It’s an incredibly emotional haunting bittersweet final season and I think it honors very much what (George R.R. Martin) set out to do — which is flipping this kind of story on its head.” ALSO: Producers originally suggested making the final season three two-hour movies.