Blockbuster adaptation of George RR Martin’s fantasy world will focus on events 300 years before the HBO series’ pilot
A Game of Thrones film is set for the big screen, with Warner Bros officially developing a prequel set in the world of Westeros.
House of Cards showrunner and Andor writer Beau Willimon has been recruited to write the script based on George RR Martin’s fantasy series.
Per a recent Hollywood Reporter cover story on Martin, it seems that the movie will be a “Dune-sized feature film” based on King Aegon Targaryen’s conquest of Westeros, which united six of the seven kingdoms about 300 years before the events of HBO’s Game of Thrones pilot. HBO is simultaneously developing a rival TV series inspired by the same story.
While Martin works on finishing The Winds of Winter, the long-awaited sixth novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, there has been a post-Thrones gold rush to bring his world to the screen. The recent A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was critically acclaimed, with the Guardian’s Stuart Heritage praising the spinoff as “saving the Game of Thrones universe”. Meanwhile, season three of House of the Dragon will premiere in June.
