'Game of Thrones' Cast: Director Says Season 6 Will Be 'Mind-Boggling,' Compares It To 'Lost'

There is a new director who will be handling episodes five and six of "Game of Thrones" season six, and he teases that it's going to be pretty "mind-boggling."

Jack Bender will leave for Belfast next week to start shooting the episodes, and it will take him the rest of the year to complete it. "You have to commit to four-and-a-half to six months because of the enormity of the episodes," he said.

Bender has worked on other popular television series such as "Under the Dome," "Lost," and "The Sopranos" prior to working on "Game of Thrones."

He actually approaches "Game of Thrones" the same way he did "Lost," and he told Variety: "This is how I look at it. As a director on 'Lost,' for example, I liked to say we get recipes from ('Lost' showrunners) Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. Then, me and the writers and the rest of the team, we'd cook the meal. That's always how I saw the metaphor."

One of the challenges Bender faces is keeping production under wraps. With so many die-hard fans of the show eager to see what showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff, as well as "A Song of Ice and Fire" write George R. R. Martin have cooked up with for the next season, it is definitely going to be difficult.

Probably the biggest concern of fans is the survival of Kit Harrington's character Jon Snow, who is the ill-fated Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. In the shocking final scene for season five, he was seen lying on the ground with his own blood pooling over at his side, after his "brothers" from the Night's Watch betrayed him and stabbed him to death for forging a partnership with the Wildlings.

Some people have guessed that he will be back, and that Melissandre might have something to do with it. After all, isn't her arrival at the Wall so convenient? On the other hand, some have sworn that they saw Jon's eyes change its color and believe that he might just become a White Walker for next season.

There are others who are even holding out hope that he has warged into his direwolf Ghost, just like his half-brother Bran does.

However, Harrington himself as well as Weiss and Benioff have stressed time and again that Jon is definitely dead and will no longer be back for season six.