'Game of Thrones' Season 4 Will Be Less Violent? Producers Say ‘The Gore Is Pushed Too Far,’ And They ‘Made Mistakes’ With Level Of Violence

"Game of Thrones" fans eagerly await the premiere of season 4 next spring, with the scenes of the Red Wedding flashing through their haunted minds. Now, executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss talk about the "Game of Thrones" violence and how they may have taken it too far last season. Does this mean season 4 will feature less violence?

"I think we've made mistakes on that front," Benioff said during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, The Latinos Post reports.

"There are moments that I think the violence, or not so much the violence, but the gore is pushed too far. It can start to become ridiculous, and something that might work in 'Evil Dead 2' isn't going to work in a show with this tone. For instance, there's a scene in the first season where a man is killed - a lance goes through his throat - and you see him gurgling and dying on the ground, and looking back on that, I think we have seven seconds of him with blood coming [out]."

"A second or two seconds can be the difference between horrible and funny," Weiss added.

"Ned's execution," Benioff said, while citing another scene from the first season. "Originally it was supposed to be - you would see the sword passing through his neck and you would see the stump of his neck and the blood pouring out - so then we ended up having a big argument about which frame to end the sword. So you see it just passing through the skin and then cut out."

Do these "mistakes" mean that Benioff and Weiss will tone down the violence and bloodshed for "Game of Thrones" season 4?

Not likely. It probably means that the executive producers will take more care in straddling the line between violence that is effective in the HBO series, and gore that just becomes over the top.

Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow in "Game of Thrones," talked to Access Hollywood at the Young Hollywood Awards and actually promised more blood in season 4!

"There's a hell of a lot of fight scenes," Kit said.

"There's a lot of blood, there's a lot of gore. It's more action packed than any season we've done so far, so it's gonna be a test to see if we can get it done," he added.