Westeros is a big place, and yet it’s just a small part of George R.R. Martin’s larger world of A Song of Ice and Fire. His fantasy realm is massive, with countless heroes and villains spread out across both the world and millennia. All those people, places, dragons, and ice demons are why Warner Bros. can make as many Game of Throne spinoffs as it wants forever. Sometimes it seems like they are trying to do exactly that, but so far Martin’s world has only ever come to life on HBO. Now that might finally be changing. A new report says Warner Bros. Discovery is in “early development” on a potential Game of Thrones movie. And, happily for Game of Thrones fans, HBO has now confirmed this to be true.
Deadline‘s Matt Grober reports that Warner Bros. Discovery executives have had “preliminary discussions” on bringing a Game of Thrones story to the big screen. These discussions are very, very early, though. There are no specific ideas or creatives attached to the project, and studios talk about doing a lot of things that never make it past that stage, so this far from a guarantee. However, there’s a dragon-sized reason to believe it could happen. IP is king in modern cinema and Westeros is a very valuable franchise for WBD. That alone could make this happen.
HBO CEO Casey Bloys recently confirmed this report to be true, but again, the Game of Thrones movie is at a very early stage of existence. He revealed Warner Bros. are “going to develop idea… We’ll see if it’s good. We’ll read the scripts along with them. I think it could be fun and interesting. I mean, that’s the point of development, you see is there a story that’s worthy of being in theaters and a big spectacle? I think it would be fun.”
This is not the first time someone has wanted to bring A Song of Ice and Fire to theaters. At one point, Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss wanted to finish their hit show with theatrical films. Warner Bros. and HBO wouldn’t let them. (Without checking my notes, I think that went just fine so no reason to talk about the end of Game of Thrones ever again.) But obviously making a standalone movie (or movies) is very different from abandoning the television format for films.
If the studio does go forward with a Game of Thrones spinoff movie, the big question will become, “What will it be about?” and “what story will they tell?” Good luck guessing. The possibilities in Westeros and beyond are as endless as they have been for all the possible spinoff shows HBO has tried developing, too. That said, we have a few suggestions ourselves.
Originally published on November 1, 2024.
