New 'Game Of Thrones' Final Season Poster Released

The Game of Thrones hype machine is in full swing. HBO today released three teasers for the fantasy drama's final season. Now it's released a new poster as well. The poster arranges the corpses of several of the show's main characters in the shape the Iron Throne. Surrounded by snow, the image is a visual representation of the conflicts that have consumed these characters fo the series' eight seasons. Now, at the last, they will have to unite to repel the Night King and White Walkers, or else be overrun by the undead horde marching southward from beyond the Wall. You can see the poster below.

Game of Thrones is based on the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by George RR Martin. The television adaptation will come to its conclusion before the source material. The most recent novel in the series, A Dance with Dragons, released eight years ago, a month after the premiere of Game of Thrones. There are still two books left — The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring — for Martin to complete his epic. Some fans worry that Game of Thrones will spoil the finale of the fantasy saga, but Martin has said the two will come to different conclusions.

"I've been so slow with these books," Martin told Rolling Stone. "The major points of the ending will be things I told them five or six years ago. But there may also be changes, and there'll be a lot added."

Co-showrunner DB Weiss told Entertainment Weekly about the privilege fo adapting the series, saying, "If you're going to spend 10 years working on one show, you better really love the people you work with because you're spending a sh**load of time away from your family and friends. You always put everything into it. So to spend time on a show that people respond to all over the world, it's incredibly gratifying. You have these characters you love and you can come up with ideas for them, and a few months later these incredible actors will be saying those things. That's such a rare gift."

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister on the series, supported appreciates Weiss and co-showrunner David Benioff willingness to end the series rather than drag it out past its natural endpoint. "That D. B. Weiss and David Benioff stuck to their guns and said, 'This is the story we wanna tell; we're not gonna extend this'—because I'm sure HBO would have loved another couple years of this show. There's an audience for it, for sure," Coster-Waldau said. "But I think everyone who watches the show will appreciate that it's finished—that it was one story from episode 1 to episode 83, and we told it."

Game of Thrones returns to HBO for its final season on April 14th.

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