<P> Series creators and executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss serve as showrunners for the seventh season . The directors for the seventh season are Jeremy Podeswa (episodes 1 and 7), Mark Mylod (episodes 2 and 3), Matt Shakman (episodes 4 and 5) and Alan Taylor (episode 6). This marks Taylor's return to the series after an absence since the second season . Shakman is a first - time Game of Thrones director, with the rest each having directed multiple episodes in previous seasons . Michele Clapton returned to the show as costume designer, after spending some time away from the show in the sixth season . She previously worked on the show for the first five seasons, as well as the end of the sixth season . </P> <P> Depending upon the release of George R.R. Martin's forthcoming The Winds of Winter, the seventh season may comprise original material not found in the A Song of Ice and Fire series . According to previous reports, some of the show's sixth season had consisted of material revealed to the writers of the television series during discussions with Martin . </P> <P> Filming began on August 31, 2016, at Titanic Studios in Belfast, and ended in February 2017 . In an interview with the showrunners, it was announced that the filming of the seventh season would be delayed until later in the year due to necessary weather conditions for filming . The showrunners stated "We're starting a bit later because, you know, at the end of this season, winter is here, and that means that sunny weather doesn't really serve our purposes any more . We kind of pushed everything down the line so we could get some grim, gray weather even in the sunnier places that we shoot ." </P> <P> Girona, Spain did not return as one of the filming locations . Girona stood in for Braavos and parts of King's Landing . It was later announced that the seventh season would film in Northern Ireland, Spain and Iceland, with filming in Northern Ireland beginning in August 2016 . The series filmed in the Spanish cities Seville, Cáceres, Almodóvar del Río, Santiponce, Zumaia and Bermeo . Spanish sources announced that the series would be filming the seventh season on Muriola Beach in Barrika, Las Atarazanas, the Royal Dockyards of Seville and at the shores of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, an islet belonging to the city of Bermeo . The series returned to film at The Dark Hedges in Stranocum, which was previously used as the Kingsroad in the second season . Some scenes were filmed in Iceland . Filming also occurred in Dubrovnik, Croatia, which is used for location of King's Landing . The scene where Arya was reunited with Nymeria was filmed in Alberta, Canada . </P>

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