As Game of Thrones gets set to return for its seventh season later this month, word has come out that the eighth season may well be made up of more feature-length episodes.

Via Vanity Fair, this past weekend’s Con of Thrones event saw sound designer Paula Fairfield reveal that, whilst Season 8 will be made up of just six episodes, the final season of Thrones will be made up of outings that clock in at 80-plus minutes.

Fairfield confirmed that this month’s seventh season will be the usual hour-a-piece episodes for the seven-episode season – bar the season finale, which has a run time of 82 minutes.

With anticipation high, Game of Thrones return to screens on July 16th.