The First Game of Thrones Movie Is in the Works

The world ofGame of Thronescontinues to expand, and soon could include a big-screen feature film.

Multiple outlets are reporting that Warner Bros. is working on the script for aGame of Thronesmovie, with Beau Willimon, who created the U.S. version ofHouse of Cards and later served as a writer on theStar Wars showAndor, working on the project.

According toThe Hollywood Reporter, “both HBO and the Warner Bros. film division were working on rival versions of the story of King Aegon I Targaryen’s conquest of Westeros,” with Warners wanting to make “a mammoth,Dune-sized feature film.”

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Despite the end of the originalGame of Thrones TV series in 2019, the franchise, created by writer George R.R. Martin, maintains a large presence on HBO and HBO Max. The streaming service has already made two spinoff shows,House of the Dragonand the recentA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, with others in development.

This is not the first time aGame of Thrones movie has been discussed, either. Before the old TV show ended, its creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, had tried to sell HBO on the idea of concluding the story with a trilogy of feature films of massive scale. HBO nixed that idea, and had Benioff and Weiss conclude the storywith the television series’ eighth season.

While aGame of Thrones movie seems like an obvious way to expand the company’s business, whether or not this project comes to fruition probably has less to do with the quality of Beau Willimon’s and more to do with what happens to Warner Bros. if it is fully acquired by Paramount Skydance and then merged into its film studio operations. They could decide they love the idea; or they could decide, like HBO before it, thatGame of Thronesis better left as a small-screen franchise. Time will tell.