Cinema Is Coming: A Game Of Thrones Movie Is Reportedly In Early Development At Warner Bros.
THR- The world of Game of Thrones could finally end up on the big screen. Warner Bros. has been quietly developing at least one film set in George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy universe, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Multiple sources describe the project as very early stage development, with no filmmaker, cast or writer yet attached. But the company is keen on exploring the idea of Westeros invading cinemas.
The move might represent a shift in the company’s strategy regarding the property. The showrunners of the original Game of Thrones series (David Benioff and Dan Weiss) famously wanted to conclude the series with three feature films instead of its 2019 final season. Martin was also keen on the idea of a movie and the author told The Hollywood Reporter back in 2014 that concepts were being kicked around. But for a long time, HBO strongly resisted the idea and instead wanted to preserve the prestige series as an HBO property.
I'll admit that I'm not as knowledgeable about the movie making process as the LCB boys here at Barstool, but today I learned that "early development" is code word for "we agreed on the idea of making a movie but haven't decided on any fucking direction that movie will take, if we actually make it". So while I want to get excited about a Thrones movie being in early development, I think I'll save those emotions for when it's in late development (whatever that means) or at least has a filmmaker, cast, or at the very least script attached to it.
Actually there is one piece of news that can get me excited and that's the writer. Just let George R.R. Martin write the entire movie, since he sure as shit isn't finishing Winds Of Winter, which will stop him from complaining about how everything turns out like he did during the final seasons of Thrones and season 2 of House of the Dragon. Everything was great in the Thronesiverse when Benioff & Weiss were copying off of George's work before everything went up in Dracarys fire flames once they had to land the dragon of a show they created without the help of the little old man with the turtle hat.
In fact I'll take this a step further. Warner Bros. should just cut out the middle man and fix the most egregious error in television history by making this movie what the final two seasons should've been. Start the movie by showing the last scene from the series finale then cut to Bran The Broken (and one true king of Westeros #Branwagon) waking up to show it was all a dream. Follow that up by resetting us back to the last scene to the all-time great episode Winds of Winter and get us hyped for what was about to happen before Benioff & Weiss had the most devastating fumble in pop culture history.
Oh yeah and you gotta have the opening credits with the banger theme song at some point too in order to remind us where everything stands.
Orrrrrrr they are just going to make a movie about another part of the Thrones universe that I have little to no knowledge of, which I will be equal parts excited and terrified about how good or disappointing it will be based on Thrones' recent track record. If George R.R. Martin doesn't want to see this movie through, Warner should turn it over to the people making The Penguin because that may be the best drama I have seen on HBO since Thrones was cooking.
No matter which direction they choose to go, I am begging Warner Bros. to not fuck this up.