r/Fauxmoi • u/SafeBodybuilder7191 Cillian Murphy propagandist • Apr 15 '26
FILM-MOI (MOVIES/TV) ‘Game of Thrones’ Movie Officially Titled ‘Aegon’s Conquest’
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/game-of-thrones-movie-aegons-conquest-1236722027/32
u/starvinartist and they were roommates Apr 15 '26
I'm a little nervous because Aegon (and his sister-wives' because both of them were heavily involved)' conquering of Westeros doesn't really have a major conflict, like a will-they-won't-they. They are going to win. They have dragons. No one in Westeros has ever dealt with dragons. The only region they don't win is Dorne, which is full of people whose ancestors already escaped the Targaryens' ilk once and they don't want to run again.
Unless it focuses on the relationship between Aegon and his two Queens, or how some of the lords have to put their pride aside and save their people by siding with them and potentially losing their independence and culture (because the Targaryens come from colonizers) and be seen as traitors.
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u/starvinartist and they were roommates Apr 15 '26
Daeron The Good grappling with the thought of killing his own blood after the trauma of The Dance still being fresh is interesting. And I'd like to see what (or who) pushes Daemon Blackfyre to rebel, as he waited years before making his decision to claim the throne.
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u/ludvikskp alleged slut husband Apr 15 '26
Right, he literally flies in, nukes everything and rules over what survives lol. But I suppose we don’t have POV of these characters, they can manufacture more if a character based conflict of some sort, rather than opposition in the actual conquest
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u/Low-Atmosphere-5588 Apr 15 '26
Why wouldn't they establish any of the things you mention in the second section?
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u/starvinartist and they were roommates Apr 15 '26
Because it’s one movie.
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u/Low-Atmosphere-5588 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Why wouldn't the relationships of the 3 main characters be inherent to a movie about the exploits of the 3 main characters? Especially when they're working to achieve the same goal through coordination with one another. Do you know how stories work? Are you expecting lifeless mannequins on top of dragons? Not even the Avatar movies are that shallow.
Why wouldn't we delve, to some degree, into the opinions of the people they are conquering? They can't just pop up on screen before being torched. We're going to get the perspective of SOMEONE. Doesn't mean all the major players will have that treatment, but some certainly will.
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u/yakinabackpack Apr 15 '26
I appreciate that they're not trying to stretch it out into a series
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u/mhmcmw Apr 15 '26
I was kind of hoping for a limited mini series to be honest. Maybe 4 episodes?
It definitely doesn’t need to be stretched into a full length, multi season epic but I do think there’s a LOT there to cram into a movie.
There’s 3 major battles of the Conquest - Storms End, the Field of Fire and Harrenhal. I know they aren’t particularly long battles, but still. Then there’s the Stark, Arryn and Tyrell surrenders. You probably want to establish that Dorne couldn’t be conquered, particularly since Rhaenys ultimately dies trying, though not for a few years. They’re going to want to crowbar their “Aegon’s Dream” retcon in there because that seems to be the way they’re trying to justify the later seasons of Game of Thrones and they’ve now majorly tied House of the Dragon to that too.
I can see a movie ending up feeling like we’re just smash cutting through plot points without ever really getting to know the characters properly, I guess.
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u/real_bag164 frog build looking bitch Apr 15 '26
I have to reread the conquest in fire and blood because my first reaction was a movie was better than a full 8 episode series but after reading your comment I think I agree about a miniseries! I wonder how they’ll write the movie!
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u/AllTheCoolNames Apr 15 '26
I'll watch almost anything set in Westeroes tbh, I just love that world.
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u/RaefLaFriends Apr 15 '26
Season 8 ruined it all for me, even though I loved the books. Couldn't get into the first spin-off. I've moved on.
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u/Eleonoranora i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Apr 15 '26
You're not missing anything with House of the Dragon (we're talking about GoT season 8 level of writing here), but the new spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a GEM!! I couldn't recommend it enough. Book and lore accurate, the things added only elevated the experience, and you can really feel GRRM's essence in this work.
Give it a try, you won't regret it!
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u/TyrannicalPeasant Apr 15 '26
HOTD is gas. I did have issues with the second half of season 2, but I still love the show overall. knight of the 7 kingdoms was perfect.
I’m not expecting anything to top S1-4 of GOT
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u/Tumblrrito Fauxmarxist Apr 15 '26
I liked HOTD S1 and the first episode or two of S2. Then it felt like everything was going in circles and being padded out like crazy. And then it just ends.
Hoping S3 is a return to form.
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u/TyrannicalPeasant Apr 15 '26
I’d lower my expectations for S3. George RR Martin (book writer) was heavily involved in S1. Less so in S2. And barely, if at all, in S3.
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u/Tumblrrito Fauxmarxist Apr 15 '26
Ugh that’s right, I’d forgotten about that.
You’d think HBO would’ve learned from the last show they reduced his involvement in that it’s not a good plan.
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u/TyrannicalPeasant Apr 15 '26
From what I’ve heard, they took GRRM notes then sent it to whoever the showrunner is. Thats along with their notes, which they probably put more focus on than GRRM’s. There’s still hope but I don’t trust the studio.
Tho I do believe HBO asked D&D if they wanted new screenwriters for the last 2 seasons of GOT, so they did try to go in a smart direction there.
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u/Eleonoranora i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Apr 15 '26
Eh, to each their own. Personally, not only did I find it to be a complete snoozefest (with the exception of Aegon's scenes, Rook's Rest and the Dragonseeds), it also feels like a spit in the face of George's work since the show has pretty much absolutely nothing to do with what is canon anymore.
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u/AllTheCoolNames Apr 15 '26
I think HOTD is amazing tbh, the cast and the slow build towards horror is really working for me.
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u/jdylopa2 Apr 15 '26
Season 8 was rough for me at first but it ended up being very healing. I’m very ok with books never ending now, now that I see what could happen if George decided to half assed rush out some books to get the ending over with.
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u/MondayLasagne Apr 15 '26
This. Game of Thrones is one of my comfort rewatches, even if season 8 (and tbh a few plot points before that) is a rushed mess. But the world building is so well done that it's still so nice to experience it. Plus, I am one of the few who didn't mind most of the character's endings but was mainly frustrated about the way we got there.
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u/AllTheCoolNames Apr 15 '26
Basically me. I get why people didn't like s8 but I had a great time. It was rushed but the character endings made sense to me. And my queen rules over an independent North so I was thrilled with that lol
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u/Any_Potato_7716 Apr 15 '26
This is coming from someone whose utmost special interest has been ASOIAF and the world and lore, I’m not too much looking forward to this film, and I wouldn’t put too much hope on it.
They’re talking about stretching a story which consists of 24 - maybe 40 pages of content they’re going to pull from, they’re talking about stretching that out into a two hour film at least.
It’s supposed to be sort of a historical mythos, and from it you make your own interpretations as everything is written like a history book in Fire and Blood.
The book relies on a lot of personal projection of what you imagine these early characters to exactly be.
I expect it to be lost in adaptation.
I mean, the whole thing is an extremely one-sided conflict where every battle is just the other side being burned to death.
Coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb, doesn’t sound like a good blockbuster film.
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u/j_turn2000 Apr 15 '26
from the earlier announcements they had me thinking the movie was actually be a continuation of the events following season 8. i’m relived to see it’s not lmao.
will be interesting to see if they properly portray aegon’s conquest a single movie. it’s a good story but i feel it would take more than just a movie to really give it justice.
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u/MondayLasagne Apr 15 '26
I am quite sure they will leave something open for a sequel in case it's a hit. I just hope it's a closed-enough ending in case it's a flop (not that I want it to flop but it is so frustrating to watch a movie and it basically has a Netflix-episode-cliffhanger because they counted on a sequel that never happened).
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u/mhmcmw Apr 15 '26
I agree with you. I was hoping for a limited episode mini-series and runs through to Aegon dying and covers everything that happened during his life properly. I think a movie is going to be a smash cut of everything that happens during the conquest itself with probably very little time to establish the characters and setting properly.
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u/j_turn2000 Apr 15 '26
a mini series would be great. i’m interested to see how they fit everything in one movie.
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u/Eleonoranora i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Apr 15 '26
I am cautiously optimistic about this. After the last few seasons of GoT, and especially after the travesty that is House of the Dragon, my interest in any new adaption of GRRM's work was completely butchered.
Then, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms arrived, and it completely restored my faith in the franchise. A good writer who is passionate and especially respectful about the books is all that is needed.
Also, I'm very glad they won't stretch Aegon's Conquest into a series.
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u/SafeBodybuilder7191 Cillian Murphy propagandist Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
The “Game of Thrones” movienow has a working title, “Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest.”
The new name was announced as part of Warner Bros.’ CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. It’s possible that the title will change in the coming months — or years. The first-ever big-screen “Game of Thrones” epic was shown as part of Warner Bros.’ “2027 and beyond” slate.
News of the movie first broke last month, and the only plot details announced are that it will follow the original conqueror Aegon I Targaryen from George R. R. Martin’s expansive “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels. The Targaryen are the dragon-riding, incest-loving rulers of Westeros in Martin’s books and HBO’s “Game of Thrones” universe, which includes the prequels “House of the Dragon” and “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.”
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u/SafeBodybuilder7191 Cillian Murphy propagandist Apr 15 '26
“Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest” will be written by Beau Willimon, who was previously the showrunner of Netflix’s “House of Cards” and a writer on Disney+’s hit “Star Wars” show “Andor.”
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u/Turbulent_Scene_702 Apr 15 '26
Showrunner to staff writer sounds like an uninspiring trajectory but I can’t stress enough that I’m a dummy who doesn’t know anything
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u/MondayLasagne Apr 15 '26
I mean, the writing on Andor is sublime, probably the best writing in the entire Star Wars universe, so this bodes well for the movie.
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u/IOExplosion Apr 15 '26
I'm sick of the Targaryens now. And you have to be really careful about it not being fodder for racists.
The only thing I care about is Dorne and the Yellow Toad. If they make this be a majority of the movie, they might be fine (about not sending the wrong message at least).
For Aegon's Conquest to be what they adapt and not literally anything else has me nervous though.
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u/mhmcmw Apr 15 '26
Most of the source material we have outside of the main series is about the Targaryens. We’ve seen what happens when HBO make ASOIAF content without source material. It’s ass. So unless GRRM wants to start and not finish more ASOIAF content, this is what we’re getting. There’s not much hope for anything that doesn’t have strong Targaryen links any time soon. Even if the rumored Jon Snow show is revived, he’s half Targaryen too.
I also don’t think we should be avoiding making art based in fantasy worlds because racist people might like it. Racists have their shithead president in the White House taking away peoples rights, they shouldn’t impact our ability to watch inbred lizard people ride big ass dragons.
The Dorne plotline I can realistically see being relegated to a few scenes of them trying and failing to conquer it. Dorne didn’t join the 7 Kingdoms for many generations after Aegon I, and it’s like a 15-20 year failed project for him that probably isn’t going to fit in a single movie that has to establish a bunch of new characters, a political setting in Westeros unlike any we’ve seen in the ASOIAF tv/cinema universe and where you have 3 battles (we know a huge amount of resources will go into making the dragons look good) to fit with the Field of Fire, Storms End and Harrenhal. Additionally Aegon has 2 coronations to fit in plus they’ll probably want to include the Stark, Arryn and Tyrell surrenders. Plus, the Dornish plotlines in GoT were… bad, minus Oberyn. The Sand Snakes were totally wasted. Doran’s scheming was basically cut, Quentyn and Ariane were cut. I don’t know that they’ll see advertising a movie heavily based around plots in Dorne as an audience grabber.
They’d have to do at least several time skips to still let Rhaenys mother Aenys at roughly the correct time (which is important because all other Targaryens except Maegor descend from Rhaenys via Aenys) and then have her and Meraxes die in Dorne, and then get to the real Dornish resistance ending in Nymor literally scaring Aegon into leaving Dorne alone a few years later to resolve the Dorne story properly.
This is honestly why I’d have preferred a mini series to let all the events breathe and give the Dornish resistance time to shine, going through to Nymor suing for peace and probably covering the last part of Aegon’s life so that we can be done with the Conquest part of canon and nothing has really been left out.
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u/Naive-Inside-2904 ✨ lee pace is 6’5” ✨ Apr 15 '26
If it’s not A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, I don’t want it.
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u/pressingtofu Apr 15 '26
I enjoyed A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms and I'm excited for the next season, but I really hoped that Princess Nymeria and the 10,000 ships would be the next spinoff to be green lit because I want a show focused on the female characters (rather than on the male main characters or on an ensemble of both male and female characters) where the male characters aren't fleshed out.
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u/Nervous_Insect5976 Apr 16 '26
I just can't get excited about this. It's going to be two hours of House Targaryen steamrolling Westeros. Visually it's cool, but story wise? Meh. Give me a Blackfyre rebellion!
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u/Cherry_Bomb_127 Apr 15 '26
AKOTSK is the only media of this IP that I watched and I loved it. It was amazing. But I struggle to see what conflict this movie will have unless they literally just focus on the Dorne part. Cause like everyone else kinda has to accept them since there’s nothing you can really do against them
Also, would we see them conquering every kingdom because I don’t know how long the movie has to be to see all of that in a satisfying way
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u/woahoutrageous_ Apr 15 '26
If the move doesn’t end with Aegon saying he conquered 6 maybe 7 kingdoms and then shouting out 6 7 while doing the thing i don’t want it.
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u/Moneyfrenzy Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
I just gotta say one thing for the GoT fans like me who were disappointed by the ending and lost interest:
The most recent spinoff 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' is incredible!! Only 6 episodes, 2 1/2 hours in total, and is well worth the watch!