More than winter is coming: Warner Bros. is developing a Game of Thrones movie

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In nan half decade since Game of Thrones vanished its eight-season tally connected HBO, nan premium cablegram web has put together galore spinoff projects — only 2 of which person travel to fruition: House of nan Dragon and nan upcoming prequel A Knight of nan Seven Kingdoms. Now, HBO’s genitor company, Warner Bros. Discovery, is making plans to bring George R.R. Martin’s imagination world to nan large screen.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. is “quietly developing” a Game of Thrones movie, but it will surely beryllium a batch little quiet now that nan connection is out. The communicative notes that nan task is still very early successful development, pinch nary head aliases screenwriters attached. It’s besides unclear if nan workplace has a conception successful mind for nan film, aliases if Martin will beryllium straight progressive pinch crafting nan story.

Ironically, Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss sounded HBO a trilogy of movies to wrap up nan series. Martin was reportedly successful favour of that scheme arsenic well, but HBO was adamant that its astir celebrated intelligence spot stay exclusive to nan network. This was earlier Max was launched arsenic a standalone streamer, and caller ownership took over. So location doesn’t look to beryllium a roadblock successful nan measurement of getting nan movie made now.

Thus far, almost each of nan projected Game of Thrones spinoffs person been prequels. While Martin’s backstory for his A Song of Ice and Fire novels has a batch territory to explore, location was a azygous Game of Thrones sequel bid that would person featured Kit Harington reprising his domiciled arsenic Jon Snow. That task fell through, but a sequel communicative would beryllium nan only measurement to bring Harington and different formed members from nan show backmost for a caller story. For now, we’ll conscionable person to hold and spot what develops.