Behind the scenes of Game of Thrones' brutal, unprecedented final season battle scene

Entertainment Weekly

The final big battle scene is "the season’s most ambitious entry — arguably the most difficult-to-produce episode in television history — that’s expected to be particularly staggering," says James Hibberd, who previews the final battle scene for this week's Entertainment Weekly, featuring 16 cover photos of the cast. The episode," he adds, "is expected to be the longest consecutive battle sequence ever committed to film, and brings the largest number of GoT major characters together since the show’s debut episode in 2011." As co-executive producer Bryan Cogman puts it: "What we have asked the production team and crew to do this year truly has never been done in television or in a movie. This final face-off between the Army of the Dead and the army of the living is completely unprecedented and relentless and a mixture of genres even within the battle. There are sequences built within sequences built within sequences. David (Benioff) and Dan (Weiss wrote) an amazing puzzle and (director) Miguel (Sapochnik) came in and took it apart and put it together again. It’s been exhausting but I think it will blow everybody away.”