Game Of Thrones Is Getting A Movie, Just Not With The Characters You’d Expect

Winter might be coming again, this time to a cinema near you. According to multiple reports, Warner Bros. is developing a Game of Thrones feature film, with House of Cards showrunner and Andor writer Beau Willimon already having turned in a draft script.

The film would sit under George R.R. Martin’s ever-expanding Westeros umbrella and is reportedly centred on Aegon I Targaryen — the silver-haired conqueror who founded the Targaryen dynasty around 300 years before the events of the original Game of Thrones series.

If you’re doing the math, that means we won’t be seeing any familiar faces like Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) or Jon Snow (Kit Harington), unless someone figures out time travel in Westeros.

While no director or cast has been confirmed, Page Six notes that the studio is keeping its fingers crossed that the project doesn’t get lost in corporate limbo. Warner Bros. is currently in the process of being sold to Paramount Skydance, and depending on how the merger shakes out, the new bosses could decide to hit delete on anything still in early development.

Then again, Game of Thrones remains one of Warner’s biggest assets, and Paramount’s CEO David Ellison told The Hollywood Reporter he plans to release 30 films once the merger is finalised — so they’ll need some dragons to fill those box-office slots.

This isn’t the first time a Thrones movie has been floated. Back in 2013, original showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss apparently pitched ending the series with a trilogy of films, per THR. Obviously, that didn’t happen — we got season eight instead.

If the project goes ahead, it’ll join a growing slate of Westeros spinoffs. House of the Dragon returns for its third season in June, while A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms just wrapped its first. Clearly, HBO and Warner Bros. aren’t ready to let this particular franchise melt into history just yet.

George R.R. Martin himself is keeping busy too. In January, he told THR that he’s finalised “about 1,100 manuscript pages” of The Winds of Winter, the long, long, long-awaited sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. There’s still no release date — but at least the man’s typing.

No word yet on when this film might actually materialise, or if it even will, but one thing’s certain: Westeros isn’t done with us. Maybe winter never really left.