HBO’s hit Game of Thrones show is getting a movie – and it might come to a theater before you can stream it

Warner Brothers is reportedly processing a Game of Thrones movie, pinch aggregate sources telling The Hollywood Reporter that nan institution is keen to bring Westeros to nan large surface – which could mean it won’t beryllium a Max-first flick.

Now earlier we get excessively excited it’s worthy noting nan Game of Thrones movie is ace early successful improvement – truthful early successful truth that reportedly nary cast, writer, aliases filmmaker is yet attached to nan project. So moreover if it does get greenlit we mightiness not spot it for immoderate time.

It being astatine specified an undeveloped shape intends we besides don’t cognize erstwhile it mightiness beryllium set. Both different follow-up Game of Thrones projects – nan deed House of nan Dragon, and nan upcoming A Knight of nan Seven Kingdoms – person been prequels. However, sequels person antecedently been bandied astir – specified arsenic nan seemingly scrapped John Snow show (via Vanity Fair).

If you callback location were primitively plans to person aggregate Game of Thrones movies, pinch nan original showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss, arsenic good arsenic writer George R.R. Martin, expressing liking successful concluding nan communicative pinch 3 characteristic films alternatively of a last season. However, HBO reportedly changeable nan thought down arsenic it wanted to support Game of Thrones arsenic an HBO series.

This caller movie chat does travel Warner Bros.' modern attack of sharing its properties betwixt nan 2 mediums of movie and TV. The Penguin, Dune: Prophecy, and nan upcoming Harry Potter show person each brought movie worlds to TV shows, truthful why couldn’t a TV world beryllium transformed into a movie?

What we want from nan Game of Thrones movie

As a bid Game of Thrones was known for its sprawling characteristic arcs, pinch episodes emotion almost for illustration respective minisodes cautiously stitched together. The ample formed of cardinal characters gave nan bid an epic consciousness arsenic each play featured aggregate different warring factions creating conflict passim Westeros – without immoderate conflict aliases betrayal emotion tired.

However, pinch play 1 unsocial having a magnitude of astir 9 and a half hours it had nan clip to make abstraction for nan plethora of crippled threads. A feature-length movie astatine two, possibly 3 hours (at a push) would want to hone successful connected a smaller portion of Westeros.

That’s why a sequel movie feels for illustration it makes nan astir sense. It could return nan shape of a much character-driven flick – possibly focused connected nan adventures of John Snow, Arya Stark, aliases different of nan main series’ protagonists station nan happenings of play 8 – arsenic nan much honed-in communicative would amended suit nan scope of a movie, and this is nan benignant of way we dream nan movie takes.

Alternatively, Warner Bros. could show america really nan much agreed Westeros (and nan North) grip a caller invading threat – giving america a monolithic conflict connected nan large screen, without needing to divided our clip among excessively galore factions. This attack could besides play into a prequel movie that shows america nan first conflict betwixt nan First Men and nan White Walkers.

However, neither of those sounds peculiarly appealing if you inquire us. Westeros was absorbing because of its in-fighting, and we’ve seen agreed armies look disconnected against large on-screen threats earlier (from Warner Bros. itself pinch nan likes of Lord of nan Rings). Meanwhile, a look into that first White Walker conflict could consciousness arsenic uninspiring arsenic galore of nan mysteries of really they defeated nan undead were revealed successful nan main show – and yet we cognize nan conflict won’t person a satisfying solution because neither broadside tin really ‘win’.

We'll person to hold and spot what Warner Bros. announces successful nan coming months and years pinch respect to this project. House of nan Dragon has done a batch of awesome activity bringing backmost our emotion for nan imagination bid that had antecedently ended connected a debased note, and we're excited to spot what comes next.

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