There is now a set end in sight for HBO's Game of Thrones as season 4 rapidly approaches.

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Game of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss recently talked to Vanity Fair about ending the series around season 7 or 8.

"We know there's an end somewhere in the seven- or eight-season zone. It's not something that goes 10, 11-it doesn't just keep on going because it can," Weiss explained. "I think the desire to milk more out of it is what would eventually kill it, if we gave in to that."

Game of Thrones Season 4 Trailer!

Benioff told Entertainment Weekly that the upcoming fourth season of Game of Thrones is essentially the middle point of the overarching story.

"It feels like this is the midpoint for us," Benioff told EW. "If we're going to go seven seasons, which is the plan, season four is right down the middle, the pivot point."

Game of Thrones is now coming dangerously close to catching up with George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book saga, on which the HBO series is based. Season 4 is adapting the second half of book 3, A Storm of Swords, but the season may take story lines from the next books as well.

Book 4, A Feast of Crows, and book 5, A Dance with Dragons, split up the story lines across Westeros, meaning that the events that take place in book 4 are happening at the same time as the events happening in book 5. Therefore, the show may be adapting both A Feast of Crows and A Dance with Dragons for season 5.

As Martin has not published any new books past the fifth one, the show is getting closer to catching up. Luckily, Martin has informed Benioff and Weiss of how the story will end ahead of time, just in case the show outpaces Martin's writing.

Game of Thrones season 4 premieres on Sunday, April 6 at 9 p.m. on HBO.

Watch the Game of Thrones season 4 trailer below:

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