Game of Thrones Season 7 Expands the Show's "Size and Scale," Actor Says

HBO's Game of Thrones returns this year for its highly anticipated Season 7, the show's penultimate one. Plot details are being kept under wraps but Iain Glen, who plays Jorah Mormont, has now teased that fans can expect a grander season in terms of size and scale.

Speaking to Radio Times (via IGN), Glen said, "I think the scale and size of the set pieces, the world that is being created, it's just getting more and more extraordinary and they feel they need that time to shoot seven hours as opposed to ten."

The seven-episode Season 7 is expected to finish shooting in mid-February, according to Radio Times; the site also speculates that the season might premiere this summer.

Also in the interview, Glen said he is unsure of Mormont's fate. "I don't know of course if I am going to make the last one," he said. "I am sort of doing a head count, but I think it’s certainly under ten people who were in the original pilot and have been in every season since. I have grown very attached to it."

Finally, Glen teased that Season 7 will be when viewers will feel that the events of the show are hurtling toward the "end game." Characters that didn't have many or any scenes together in Seasons 1-6 are meeting up in Season 7, Glen said, without providing any specifics.

The first teaser for Game of Thrones Season 7 was released at Comic-Con last July, while another brief snippet popped up in November.

Game of Thones creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss have talked about ending the show after Season 8. Though it may end, HBO is currently discussing a spinoff.

"It's such a great world and it's such a great property, we'd be crazy not to at least explore the idea of some sort of prequel or whatever you want to call it," HBO programming boss Casey Bloys said. "So, we are thinking about it, talking about it, but nothing really of note to report just yet."