'Game of Thrones' Season 7 to feature show's longest episode

June 9 (UPI) -- Game of Thrones fans can expect the show's longest episode yet in Season 7.

Showrunner David Benioff said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that the new season's finale will run around 90 minutes.

"We have two episodes over 60 minutes this year," he shared. "One will be our longest episode ever -- it's coming in around 90 minutes."

Benioff said the season will also feature the show's "shortest episode at 50 minutes." Previous episodes have clocked in at 51 minutes, while the longest thus far -- the Season 6 finale, "The Winds of Winter" -- ran 69 minutes.

Season 7 will premiere July 16, and consist of seven episodes instead of the customary 10. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Kit Harington, who play Jamie Lannister and Jon Snow, said in May that the new season's events move "much quicker" than previous seasons.

"I feel like I'd been lulled into a different pace," Coster-Waldau told Entertainment Weekly. "Everything happened quicker than I'm used to ... a lot of things that normally take a season now take one episode."

"This season is really different than any other season because it's accelerating toward the end, a lot of stuff collides and happens much quicker than you're used to seeing on Thrones," Harington added. "It's quite exciting."

Game of Thrones is based on the A Song of Ice and Fire book series by George R.R. Martin, and will conclude with an eighth season in 2018. Aiden Gillan, who portrays Littlefinger, recently told UPI the final two seasons will be "jam-packed."

"There's still so much story, so much that has to happen in this story of Game of Thrones," the actor said.