Game of Thrones Season 7 Sets Premiere Date

Fans of Game of Thrones have even more reasons to look forward to the summer. HBO has set a premiere date for Season 7 of its blockbuster fantasy drama. The seven-episode seventh season will launch July 16. The network also released the first teaser for the new season.

In an extraordinarily elaborate, elongated Facebook Live video announcement watched by more than 150,000 fans, the premiere date was revealed as a big block of ice was melted by flaming torches. Fans were asked to type the word FIRE in comments to speed up the melting. Also interspersed were short videos of the series’ stars such as Alfie Allen breathing fire. The ice and fire theme — underlined by the name of the book series, A Song of Ice and Fire — was played up in the Season 7 poster released earlier this week.

GOT, whose previous seasons consisted of 10 episodes each, typically premiered in April after filming during the second half of the previous year. Season 7 was delayed because the storyline required a longer period of shooting in winter conditions. This is also the beginning of the end for GOT which is set to conclude with season 7 and 8.


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