Thank the Lord of Light!
The very first footage from “Game of Thrones” final season was released Sunday night, as part of a video full of teases for upcoming installments of “True Detective,” “Big Little Lies,” and more HBO programs.
While the trailer included footage from previous episodes of “GoT,” one shot was brand new and showed Jon Snow (Kit Harington) hugging his little sister Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) at Winterfell. You can see the moment at the 1:10 mark in the video above when “final season” very appropriately flashes across the screen.
Some fans took this image as an old one, the siblings’ reunion at Castle Black many moons ago, but it is a new scene (TheWrap confirmed the footage was fresh with HBO).
But hold your dragons, “GoT” fans, because while this footage was ready to go Sunday, the final batch of episodes aren’t coming until the first half of 2019. Though it is going to be worth the wait, as star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau recently told TheWrap “all the pieces fit” in the end.
Watch the teaser footage above.
“Game of Thrones” eighth and final season will air in the first half of 2019 on HBO.