Anything, Jon Snow's direwolf satisfied his name in Season 7 of "Game of Thrones."

Over the span of seven scenes, the King in the North's steady sidekick didn't show up once. Apparition was a genuine phantom.


This in spite of the way that the wolf would most likely prove to be useful in showdown with zombie crowds, undead polar bears and the Night King, who's bringing down mythical beasts with pinpoint precision like he's plaid-wearing, resigned expert rifleman Mark Wahlberg in any Mark Wahlberg motion picture.

Actually, the direwolf was scarcely even made reference to. In Season 7, Episode 5, Sansa said that it was out of line for Jon to anticipate that the North will "sit and sit tight for him like Ghost." But that was about it.

A slice scene intended to indicate Jon petting Ghost on the head, as "Game of Thrones" author Bryan Cogman uncovered, teaching the direwolf to watch over Sansa. Oh, it didn't make it in the season.

Yet, I'm here to disclose to you today that Ghost will never again be ghosted.

"Gracious, you'll see him once more. He has a decent lot of screen time in Season 8," VFX supervisor Joe Bauer let me know in a meeting in August. "He shows up."

Amid our discussion, Bauer clarified that the absence of direwolves in the last "GoT" season may have had something to do with the way that standard wolves aren't as enchanted to work with.

"The direwolves are extreme since you would prefer not to misunderstand them, so we wind up continually shooting genuine wolves and completing a scaling trap with them, yet the genuine wolves just carry on in certain ways," Bauer said.




The VFX supervisor included that show makers David Benioff and Dan Weiss could have more to include regarding why the direwolves didn't appear as much as we'd trusted, yet he repeated that working with genuine wolves is "somewhat constrained."

"I imagine that has something to do with why the direwolves are in the show however they're not perhaps as necessary as they are in the books," he said.

In contrast to the show, which has murdered off everything except two of the Starks' direwolves, the books aren't exactly as ruff. R.I.P. to Sansa's Lady and Robb's Gray Wind, however Shaggydog, Nymeria, Ghost and Summer all seem, by all accounts, to be perfectly healthy in book frame up until now.

Truth be told, notwithstanding Bran, kin Jon Snow and Arya additionally appear to have warging capacities with their posers. The HBO arrangement selected not to incorporate this detail.

Since the show's last season has arrived, fans can most likely expect Arya's wolf, Nymeria, who made an appearance in Season 7, to show up once more, as well. In any case, while Bauer didn't remark on her destiny particularly, he was clear about Ghost.

"Apparition shows up, and he does some ... he's extremely present and does some truly cool things in Season 8," he said.

Since truly, cry you going to have Season 8 without Ghost? Snow thank you to that.