Game of Thrones might be coming to a cinema near you. Warner Bros, the studio behind the fantasy franchise, is developing a big screen adventure set in Westeros, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s early days and no writer, director or cast have been attached to the gestating project.
If it goes ahead, it would be the first film to be adapted from George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones books.
There had been desires from the Game of Thrones TV showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to wrap up the 2011 series with three movies, but HBO was against it.
Martin had previously expressed support for the idea. The fantasy title is set in a medieval England-esque fantasy world and deals with warring royal and aristocratic families fighting for control of the throne. There are also supernatural elements such as dragons and ice demons called White Walkers.
Game of Thrones has proven to be lucrative intellectual property for Warner Bros which has leveraged it for the successful eight-season original series as well as spin-off prequel House of the Dragon, which is in production on its third season. There is also another prequel series called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which Martin created based on his Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas. Filming wrapped in September and its six episodes is expected to be released in late-2025.
The original show was a massive commercial and critical hit, earning super-sized ratings, awards and dominated the cultural zeitgeist. As it was nearing i.