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What's up guys, Frazier here for Complex with some bad news.

This outcome has been a possibility for awhile now, but today it became official: the final

season of Game of Thrones, will not air until 2019.

The confirmation comes courtesy of Sansa Stark herself, Sophie Turner.

In a new interview with Variety discussing her career plans for life-after-Thrones, Turner

casually reveals season 8 is set for 2019 while listing off her release schedule.

For what it's worth HBO hasn't actually said anything concrete but, let's be real...Turner

probably knows what's up.

If anything her slip will just force HBO's hand to confirm it.

This definitely sucks, but the writing was on the wall.

Thrones only just started filming season 8 in October, and in the same interview Turner

estimates they have at least six more months left.

Add in all the special effects and other time consuming post-production flourishes each

episode needs, and there's really no way the show could realistically meet a 2018 release

date.

There are ice dragons in play now, after all.

Making that shit look cool takes time.

A twelve-month minimum wait isn't ideal but at least season 8 is shaping up to be

worthy of the long wait.

The season will only be six episodes but showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff have hinted at

each ep being super-sized in length, maybe even 80 minutes.

Here's what Turner was able to tease about Sansa's arc.

"This season, there's a new threat, and all of a sudden she finds herself somewhat

back in the deep end.

And without Littlefinger, it's a test for her of whether she can get through it.

This season is more a passionate fight for her than a political, manipulative kind of

fight."

When we last left Sansa, she skirted every fan's fears that she'd kill her sister

Arya and instead teamed up with her to take out master schemer and all-around fuckboy

Littlefinger.

Meanwhile her brother Jon just pledged the family's loyalty to his new boo slash unbeknownst

aunt Daenerys.

And ice zombies are on the way.

So, yea, there's gonna be a lot going on next season.

2019 can't come soon enough.

Hopefully by the time Thrones premieres we'll at least have a new president.

Meanwhile you can catch Turner on the cover of EW previewing her role as the titular Dark

PHoenix in the hotly anticipated new X-Men film, due next November.

That's the news for now but for more GoT updates during this long winter subscribe

to Complex News on YouTube.

For Complex I'm Frazier.