Game of Thrones could come to the cinema. Everything about the film in development and the conquest of Aegon Targaryen, a founding event in the history of Westeros.
The ending of game of Thrones in 2019 it represented the end of a television era for many. The HBO series had, in fact, redefined the way of telling fantasy on the small screen, transforming political intrigue, dynastic wars and dragons into one of the most powerful cultural phenomena of recent decades. Yet Westeros never truly disappeared. With House of the Dragon, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and now the possibility of a film, the universe created by George RR Martin continues to expand.
In recent months, Warner Bros. has begun developing a film project set in the same narrative world. This is not yet a production underway, but the first step towards the big screen.
Everything we know about the Game of Thrones movie
According to rumors, the studio is working on a film set in the universe of game of Thrones. The screenplay has already been entrusted to Beau Willimon, an author known for having created House of Cards and for his work on the series Andor.
The project is in the very early stages. No director, cast or release date have been announced and there is no official confirmation yet on the final plot. However, the idea of bringing Westeros to the cinema has been around for years. Already during the last season of the original series some producers had, in fact, hypothesized a cinematic conclusion to the saga, a hypothesis that was never realized. Today the scenario is different. After the success of the two spin-offs, HBO and Warner Bros. are trying to build an ever larger narrative universe. Cinema could become the next step.
Most likely story: Aegon’s conquest
The most insistent rumors indicate that the film could tell one of the founding events in the history of Westeros: the conquest of Aegon I Targaryen.
This is the event that marks the birth of the unified kingdom of the Seven Kingdoms and represents one of the founding moments in the history of Westeros. About three hundred years before the events told in game of ThronesAegon Targaryen set out from Dragonstone together with his sister-wives Visenya and Rhaenys to conquer the continent, then divided into several independent kingdoms ruled by ancient dynasties.
Their decisive advantage was the dragons. Aegon rode Balerion, while Visenya and Rhaenys led Vhagar and Meraxes, creatures capable of tipping the military balance of traditional warfare. Thanks to this superiority, the military campaign was rapid and devastating. Episodes such as the Field of Fire, in which the Reach army was destroyed by dragon flames, demonstrated that no kingdom was truly capable of opposing the Targaryens.
Some rulers resisted, others preferred to surrender. The most emblematic case is that of Torrhen Stark, king in the North, who decided to bow to Aegon to avoid the destruction of his people, becoming in historical memory the King Who Kneltthe king who knelt.
