There were rumors going around yesterday that HBO will drop a full trailer for Game of Thrones season 7 today, May 11. The theory, posited by WhatCulture, is that we received the first still images from season 7 three weeks after we got the Long Walk trailer, which was three weeks after we got the Sigils teaser. Well, today is three weeks since we got the still images, so now it’s time for the next thing, right?
Wrong, at least according to James Hibberd, Entertainment Weekly’s man on the ground for all things Game of Thrones-related. He was asked, straight-up, if there would be a trailer today, and his answer said it all:
— James Hibberd (@JamesHibberd) May 10, 2017
Hibberd has a direct line to HBO and the Game of Thrones production, and has broken many exclusive stories over the years. His word is pretty definitive. Unless he’s lying, in which case we’ll be very embarrassed. But if there’s a new trailer in the offing, we’ll get over it.
I’m sorry if I’ve shot down any hopes. Let me raise them again with another way-out-there theory: Game of Thrones writer Bryan Cogman (“The Laws of Gods and Men,” “The Broken Man”) recently tweeted about having lunch with George R.R. Martin.
What a cute story about George R.R. Martin’s well-known reputation for murdering his fictional characters at weddings, right? WRONG! Or, well, right, but could there be more to it? Fans are still buzzing over last week’s news that HBO is developing four different Game of Thrones spinoffs, and that Martin will help write two of them. (Keep in mind that we don’t know whether this means HBO is actually making four different spinoffs, or just developing four ideas and choosing the best one, or what.) Might that be what the two were talking about?
We also note that Cogman’s Twitter avatar is an image from the Dance of Dragons, a Targaryen Civil War that happened years before the events of Game of Thrones. Wouldn’t that make a terrific spinoff?