A full trailer for the final season of Game of Thrones has been unveiled by HBO.
Having previously hinted at what fans can expect from the eighth series in a handful of brief teaser clips, the US channel has now shared its most extensive look yet at the last six episodes.
The two-minute trailer follows Westeros' major players as they gear up for the fantasy series’ most dramatic showdown yet, as Kit Harington’s Jon Snow says: “Our enemy doesn’t tire. Doesn’t stop. Doesn’t feel.”
The footage also sees Harington’s character striding forth alongside Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen, as the Mother of Dragons heads towards Winterfell accompanied by her fiery creatures, while Sophie Turner's Sansa Stark appears to prepare for battle.
The first episode will debut on Sky Atlantic in the early hours of April 15 in the UK, and will be repeated that evening.
Yesterday, it was revealed that the show’s final series will feature what is reportedly the longest consecutive battle scene in film and television history, which will also bring together the largest number of principal characters since the first episode in 2011.
“What we have asked the production team and the crew to do this year truly has never been done in television or in a movie,” co-executive producer Bryan Cogman told Entertainment Weekly.
“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.”
Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark, revealed that the gruelling battle scenes left her feeling “mentally and physically broken” during filming.
“Nothing can prepare you for how physically draining it is. It’s night after night, and again and again, and it just doesn’t stop,” she told Entertainment Weekly.
“You can’t get sick, and you have to look out for yourself because there’s so much to do that nobody else can do… there are moments you’re just broken as a human and just want to cry.”
Game of Thrones season eight will air in the UK on Sky Atlantic on April 15.
