HBO's 'Game of Thrones' has recently successfully wrapped up their fifth season in their classic fashion of jaw-dropping cliffhangers and a plethora of unanswered questions.

Fans can only speculate on what the producers have in store for the next season, as it has been noted that the sixth installment will be where the show and books deviate from each other. This also raises the question as to how long does the show plan to go on?

Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss once said that they would be ecstatic if 'Game of Thrones' would reach seven seasons, however it seems as if feelings have changed recently.

"It would be nice if people kept watching it," Weiss said to EW. "The idea is to tell a unified story that's 70-odd hours long and do that successfully. It's something I would love for my kids to be able to appreciate someday - though it might be traumatic for them to see it."

"It would be fun if it was like Fast Times at Ridgemont High where people are still watching [Thrones] 20 years from now and going, 'Look, that's a young Aflie Allen,' or 'That's a young Sophie Turner' - where so many actors started such great careers," Benioff added. "It would be really fun on a personal level to know we had a helping hand in launching them, as well as other actors who aren't so young that we still gave a boost."

Weiss also went on to add some insight on how he plans to frame the next season as they now have no book for reference.

"I'd like to think the unpredictability of the show relative to the books where sometimes the show cleaves to the books and sometimes it departs from the books creates a kind of separate-if-obviously-very-closely-related universe that can coexist," the producer said. "You can't dictate people's reactions but I hope there's an element of surprise introduced into the show's narrative that makes it exciting for both people who read the books and people who watch the show and haven't read the books yet."

'Game of Thrones' season 6 goes into production this July and returns to HBO next year.