Ghost will ghost no more. Jon Snow's direwolf will be very much alive and present in the eighth and final season of HBO's "Game of Thrones" next year.

The huge, white direwolf that is loyal to Jon (Kit Harington) didn't so much as haunt the screen in Season 7. He was mentioned once by Sansa (Sophie Turner), who complained she didn't want to "sit and wait for [Jon] like Ghost" after he had departed the North to meet with Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) at Dragonstone.

"Oh, you’ll see him again. He has a fair amount of screen time in Season 8,” VFX supervisor Joe Bauer told The Huffington Post.

He added, "He’s very present and does some pretty cool things in Season 8."

Ghost was supposed to appear in one scene in Season 7, but it ended up getting cut, as writer Bryan Cogman explained in a Blu-ray commentary track for the episode "Stormborn."

"There was a bit here where Jon came out of the crypt, and Ghost came up to him and he petted him and said, 'Take care of [Sansa], watch over her for me,'" Cogman noted.

"But I guess those direwolves are expensive. I guess it got cut. Oh, well. Ghost is there somewhere roaming around."

Unlike the books, where most of the Stark siblings' direwolves are alive, the show has only kept two of them: Ghost and Nymeria. The latter did appear in a Season 7 scene with Arya (Maisie Williams).

Bauer confirmed that shooting scenes with direwolves isn't easy.

"The direwolves are tough because you don’t want to get them wrong, so we end up always shooting real wolves and doing a scaling trick with them," he explained, "but the real wolves only behave in certain ways."

"Game of Thrones" Season 8 is expected to premiere in the first half of 2019 on HBO.