GoT season 7, 8 will be really shorter

Here's a story to all the Game of Thrones fans, winter is coming a lot sooner than expected, but for a very a shorter span.

Following their explosive season six finale, 'Game of Thrones' co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have made it clear that there are only but a handful of episodes left to spread across the final two seasons of their HBO hit, reports E! Online.

"It's two more seasons we're talking about. From pretty close to the beginning, we talked about doing this in 70-75 hours, and that's what we'll end up with," said Benioff.

"Call it 73 for now," he added.

For those not keeping score at home, each of GoT's six seasons have been made up of 10 episodes each, bringing the series to a current total of 60 hours and leaving us with only 13-15 to hit their target.

According to Benioff, "We're trying to tell one cohesive story with a beginning, middle and end."

"We've known the end for quite some time and we're hurtling towards it. Those last images from the [season six finale] showed that. Daenerys is finally coming back to Westeros; Jon Snow is king of the North and Cersei is sitting on the Iron Throne. And we know the Night King is up there, waiting for all of them. The pieces are on the board now," he added.