Game Of Thrones Season 8: 8 Things We Already Know
7. Multiple Endings Might Be Shot
Last year, Casey Bloys said that "they’re going to shoot multiple versions [of the ending] so that nobody really knows what happens." You can see the logic in that, in one sense, because of a number of leaks that occurred during Season 7.
Not only did two episodes air early, but HBO were the victims of a major hack, and way before any of that happened a lot of the story was outlined on Reddit. The ending to Game of Thrones is massive, and HBO need to protect that.
On the flip side, it's going to cost a LOT of money to shoot endings that are unusable before they've even been shot, which led to Nikolaj Coster-Waldau casting doubt on the whole idea, saying it seemed "stupid".
Coster-Waldau is right that it would be a lot of time and money, but at the same time you'd think Bloys would be more in the know about what's happening right now, and it'd be odd for the programming president to make that kind of claim without there being some truth to it.