Let's get the bad news out of the way first: season three won't be here for a long, long time. Although HBO officially renewed the show for a third season back in May, the network has yet to announce a specific premiere date. In fact, the cast seems to be just as in the dark as we are.
"Yeah, I have no idea where it's heading," Ed Harris, who plays the Man in Black, recently told HuffPost. "We're not supposed to start shooting season three until next June, so I don't even know if I'm in it or not. I figure I am? But I don't know in what capacity, and I don't know what the what will be happening. We'll find out."
If it doesn't start filming until June 2019, that could mean waiting until Spring 2020 (for context, season two didn't premiere until April 22 of this year). According to cocreator Jonathan Nolan, the longer wait is due to their attention to detail.
"It's an ongoing conversation with our friends at HBO, and for us, with a show of this scope and scale, we're not interested in doing the compromised version," he explained to Entertainment Weekly. "We want the show to get bigger and bigger and more ambitious, and this takes time. We want to take all the time we need to get it right."