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Warner Bros. is developing a film based on Game of Thrones. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Beau Willimon has been tapped to write the script. Wilimon first came to prominence as a playwright, writing Farragut North, which he adapted to the screen in 2011 for The Ides or March, starring George Clooney.

Willmon also was the creator and showrunner for Netflix’s House of Cards, which ran for several seasons. Most recently, he contributed his talents to Andor, the Emmy-winning Star Wars series for Disney+.

Based on the best-selling fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones ran as a television series for eight seasons and won a king’s ransom of Emmy awards.
Plans to adapt Game of Thrones into a movie have been in the works for more than a decade. Back in 2013, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss proposed that HBO make three feature films based on the epic story, but the idea went nowhere at the time.

 

According to a recent cover story in The Hollywood Reporter, both HBO and Warner Bros. were independently working on adaptations of the earlier Game of Thrones narratives.
At this point, however, it’s unclear how Warner Bros. might proceed with the adaptation, given the anticipated uncertainty surrounding the proposed merger with Paramount Skydance. However, Paramount’s chief David Elllison has said Game of Thrones is one of his favorites.

Although no plot details have yet been confirmed, it’s been reported that Willimon’s story will finally bring King Aegon I to the screen in connection with his founding of the Targaryen dynasty and his conquest of Westeros—events that took place centuries before those depicted in the original television series. Daenerys Targaryen (played by Emilia Clarke), one of Aegon’s descendants, recently starred in HBO’s two spinoff series, House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

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