《權力的游戲》第六季剛剛結束，真愛粉們就已經迫不及待地盼著第七季了。然而《權》劇的制片方最近卻表示，第七季的《權力的游戲》有可能會推遲上映。

該劇的制片人大衛·貝尼奧夫和D.B.韋斯本周接受網絡媒體UFC Unfiltered Podcast采訪時暗示道，《權力的游戲》第七季有可能將推遲上映。在與UFC終極格斗的粉絲們討論《權》劇時，當被問到該劇的第七季（也就是整個《權》劇的倒數第二季）大概何時能與觀眾見面，貝尼奧夫與韋斯表示，雖然往年每一季的《權力的游戲》基本都在四月份登陸有線電視網絡，但下一季的上映時間很可能會有所推遲。

至于原因，制片人給出的回答是：天氣太好，不利拍攝。

雖然第七季的《權力的游戲》尚無確切的上映日期，不過這兩位制片人表示，《權力的游戲》一條貫穿始終的讖語便是“凜冬將至”，大家盼了N年的凜冬遲早得被搬上熒幕，因此下一季的拍攝免不了需要更加“嚴酷”和寒冷的冬天作為背景。

貝尼奧夫在那段播客上表示：“我們這一季的拍攝開始時間比往年晚了一些，因為在上一季的末尾，‘凜冬將至’變成了‘凜冬已至’，所以陽光燦爛的日子就不適合我們繼續拍攝了。因此我們把拍攝時間推遲了一些，等到天氣比較嚴酷并且有風雪的時候再拍，哪怕是在一些陽光比較充足的外景地也是一樣。”該劇的一些外景主要在地中海周邊地區拍攝，比如克羅地亞、摩洛哥和西班牙等地。

《財富》聯系了HBO電視臺，請其對貝尼奧夫和韋斯的說法做出回應。HBO的發言人杰夫·卡森在電子郵件中表示，現在猜測第七季《權力的游戲》何時上映還為時過早。

作為一部收視率已經極為火爆的美劇，第六季的《權力的游戲》又將該劇的收視率引爆到一個新的高度。光是該劇第六季的最后一集，便有890萬人觀看了直播或重播，創下了美劇單集收視率的最高紀錄。

有人擔心近期的英國脫歐事件或將影響到《權》劇的拍攝，因為英國的北愛爾蘭地區正是《權》的外景地之一。對此，HBO于上月對外宣稱，英國脫歐并不會對該劇的拍攝產生影響。目前，HBO已經簽訂了下一季的采購合同，不出意外的話，第八季也就是最后一季的《權力的游戲》也將如約與觀眾見面（貝尼奧夫和韋斯近日在接受采訪時也暗示了劇終的走向。）

與此同時，在本周三的這段播客中，貝尼奧夫和韋斯也沒有排除《權》劇出前傳的可能性。?（財富中文網）?

譯者：樸成奎

As if Game of Thrones fans weren’t already on the edge of their seats waiting for the next season premiere, the creators of the HBO series say they may have to wait a little longer.

Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss hinted at a delayed start to the seventh season this week while appearing on theUFC Unfiltered podcast (first reported by the New York Post). Amid a discussion of the writer-producers’ Ultimate Fighting Championship fandom, Benioff and Weiss were asked when fans can expect Game of Thrones‘s next-to-last season to debut on HBO. While previous seasons have premiered on the premium cable network during the month of April, Benioff and Weiss said the next season could actually be delayed.

The culprit? Good weather.

There is no firm premiere date yet, but the showrunners said it will “probably be a little later” because filming for the upcoming season will require more “grim,” cold weather, After all, the show’s longtime tagline has been “Winter is coming” and that long-promised colder weather had to show up onscreen at some point.

“We’re starting a little bit later, because at the end of this season, you know, ‘Winter is here,'” Benioff said on the podcast. “And, that means that sunny weather doesn’t really serve our purposes anymore, so we kind of pushed everything down the line so we could get some grim, grey weather, even in the sunnier places where we shoot.” Some of the series’ locales includeMediterranean settings such as Croatia, Morocco, and Spain.

Fortune reached out to HBO for a response to the comments from Benioff and Weiss. Network spokesman Jeff Cusson responded in an email that it is “too early to speculate” on when the seventh season of Game of Thrones will premiere.

Game of Thrones‘ explosive sixth season set ratings records for an already hugely popular cable series, and the show set a personal record with its season finale, for which 8.9 million people tuned in live or later the day it aired.

There had been some concern among Game of Thrones fans that the recent Brexit could affect filming in Northern Ireland, butHBO said last month that the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union would not hurt the show. HBO has renewedthe program for next season, and the network is also widely expected to sign on for an eighth, and final, season (which Benioff and Weiss have also recently teased).

Meanwhile, in the UFC podcast released on Wednesday, Benioff and Weiss also did not rule out the possibility of an eventual prequel series that would be set before the events of the currentGame of Thrones.