SHOCKING LEAK: HBO is secretly filming Game of Thrones Season 9 to “fix” the ending of Season 8! And what has fans stunned the most — a character thought to be dead suddenly returns!

LOS ANGELES – In what may be the biggest entertainment bombshell of the decade, multiple high-level sources inside HBO and Bad Wolf Studios in Wales have confirmed to us that cameras are quietly rolling on Game of Thrones Season 9, an unannounced, ultra-secret continuation explicitly designed to “repair the damage” caused by the universally reviled final season of the original series.

According to three separate production insiders who spoke on condition of anonymity because they signed iron-clad NDAs, filming began in late August 2025 under the fake working title “Winter’s Ghost” at familiar locations in Northern Ireland, Spain, and Croatia.

The entire operation has been conducted with military-level secrecy: crew members’ phones are confiscated at the gate, scripts are printed on red paper that cannot be photocopied, and drone surveillance has been doubled after paparazzi nearly caught night shoots at the Dark Hedges last month.

Most astonishing of all is the return of a major character long believed to be permanently dead, a resurrection that has reportedly left even veteran crew members speechless on set.

“It’s not a flashback, it’s not a vision, it’s not Bran warging,” one source told us, practically whispering. “This character is back in the flesh, in real time, in Season 9 present day. When they called ‘action’ on the first take, half the crew legitimately gasped. Some people cried. I’m not joking.”

While our sources refused to name the returning character for fear of immediate termination, heavy circumstantial evidence points to Jon Snow (Kit Harington). Multiple flight manifests obtained from Belfast International Airport show Harington arriving under the alias “J. Targaryen” on August 19, 2025, the same week principal photography allegedly began.

Two days later, a blacked-out van with tinted windows was spotted leaving the Linen Mill Studios lot at 3 a.m., reportedly carrying Harington and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who have not been seen publicly together since the infamous 2019 finale backlash.

Perhaps the strongest confirmation comes from an anonymous extra who posted (and quickly deleted) an Instagram story from the Dragonstone set showing what appeared to be Longclaw, Jon’s distinctive Valyrian steel sword, leaning against a director’s chair with a new production tag reading “S91 – Ep 103.”

HBO officially declined to comment, with a spokesperson repeating the standard line that “House of the Dragon is our only active Game of Thrones project.” However, when pressed specifically about Season 9 rumors, the spokesperson paused for eight full seconds before saying “No comment” – an eternity in PR terms and the clearest tell yet that something massive is being hidden.

The decision to green-light Season 9 reportedly came directly from new Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav in early 2025, after internal research showed that negative sentiment around the Game of Thrones ending still ranked as the single biggest brand liability in HBO’s portfolio, six years later. One executive allegedly told staff, “Stranger Things got to fix its later seasons with a victory-lap final season. We’re doing the same, just quietly.”

The plan, according to insiders, is to release all six episodes of Season 9 simultaneously in late 2026 or early 2027 with zero advance marketing, mimicking Beyoncé’s self-titled visual album drop. The working strategy is to let leaks build organic hysteria for six months until the internet collectively loses its mind when the familiar opening credits suddenly appear unannounced one random Friday night.

Perhaps the most telling detail: every single cast member who was asked about returning in recent interviews gave suspiciously similar answers. Emilia Clarke laughed nervously and said “you never know.” Sophie Turner posted a white heart emoji on Instagram the day after filming allegedly began. Even Lena Headey, who previously swore she was “done with Westeros forever,” was spotted in Belfast last month wearing a hooded jacket that said “The North Remembers” in tiny embroidery on the sleeve.

If this leak is real, and every piece of evidence suggests it is, HBO is about to pull off the greatest television bait-and-switch in history: secretly filming the apology season the entire world begged for, then dropping it like a nuclear bomb when least expected.

The Iron Throne may be melted, but the game, it seems, is far from over.

One source left us with this chilling quote before hanging up: “Season 8 was the red wedding for the audience. Season 9 is the resurrection.”