Peter Dinklage, who will reprise his role as Tyrion Lannister in 2019’s final season of Game Of Thrones, has been hyping up an epic battle versus the White Walkers.

“It’s brutal,” Dinklage said to EW, chatting about a battle that purportedly took 55 days to shoot. “It makes the Battle of the Bastards look like a theme park”, he added, making us absolutely desperate to see these scenes.

It’s been a while since we saw Tyrion, hero of Blackwater Bay, taking an active hands-on role in battling. It’ll be interesting to see whether the undead threat becomes so great in The Walking Dead season 8 that he has to get his hands dirty again.

One thing we do know is that this combat-heavy episode is in safe hands: Miguel Sapochnik, director of Hardhome and Battle Of The Bastards, will be calling the shots.

Additionally, co-showrunner David Benioff said this about the battle:

“Having the largest battle doesn’t sound very exciting — it actually sounds pretty boring. Part of our challenge, and really, Miguel’s challenge, is how to keep that compelling… we’ve been building toward this since the very beginning, it’s the living against the dead, and you can’t do that in a 12-minute sequence.”

We don’t know the release date yet for the final season of Game Of Thrones, but EW‘s massive new feature has plentiful info that will keep us hyped up.

More as we hear it.