But the location isn’t one that anyone had been expecting…
While we’ll apparently be waiting until 2019 for the first of the last six episodes of the show to air, reports are arriving that the cast and crew are hard at work on filming the opening scene for the final season.
According to well-respected GoT community news site Watchers On The Wall, both David Nutter (who has been announced as the director of episodes 1, 2 and 4 of the final season) and Kit Harrington are in Ireland working on the show.
That moment you walk up to @kitharingtoncom at Belfast airport; decide it’s not #KitHarington when you get close only to find out five minutes later that it was in fact @kitharingtoncom #fail #GameofThrones @ArtiCADDesign #ontour
— Bear (@Waltham_Bear) January 17, 2018
Sources informed WOTW that the filming was primarily taking place in Moneyglass in County Antrim, but that it was for scenes that would be taking place in Winter town, the small settled area just outside of Winterfell.
You might remember Winter town from the scenes involving Brienne and Podrick waiting for Sansa to light the candle inside Winterfell.
Clip via Davos Seaworth
It was also the town that housed the brothel that Tyrion visited in the very first episode of the series, way back in 2011.
With these same sources claiming that these new scenes filmed there will be the opening scenes of Season 8, should we expect that the White Walkers have already reached the edges of Winterfell by the time we return to the show?
It is possible, as there are so many plots threads left dangling with just six episodes left to tie them all, we fully expect the final season to hit the ground sprinting and not let up until the end credits of the final episode.
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