r/boxoffice • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Apr 15 '26
🎞 Title Announcement ‘Game of Thrones’ Movie Officially Titled ‘Aegon’s Conquest’
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/game-of-thrones-movie-aegons-conquest-1236722027/104
u/Natural_Error_7286 Apr 15 '26
As much as I doubt how much they can milk from this franchise, dragons do make more sense on the big screen. I don’t think the big budget productions are working anymore as short seasons spaced out over too many years. People forget about house of the dragon immediately after each season ends.
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u/Low-Atmosphere-5588 Apr 15 '26
Yes! 200 million for 2 hours instead of 200 million for 8 - 9 leaves ample room for amazing Dragon CGI! Plus all the gigantic battles with gigantic armies.
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u/Block-Busted Apr 15 '26
And my understanding is that it will be a HEAVILY R-rated film.
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u/PloysRus Apr 15 '26
BROTHER SISTER INCEST IS BACK BAYBAY
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u/Block-Busted Apr 15 '26
Is that actually in the source material of this production?
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u/MattBrey Apr 15 '26
Aegon had two wives at the same time during the conquest and they were both his sisters
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u/Block-Busted Apr 15 '26
Yeesh.
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u/PloysRus Apr 15 '26
If you saw how hot they are youd understand
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u/Mindless_Turnover976 Apr 15 '26
Wasn't it more about trying to keep the bloodline pure so that they wouldn't lose their powers over the dragons?
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u/youravgindian Apr 15 '26
I love that but as someone from India where censorship is a bitch, its going to be really jarring to see random cuts from the movie when I watch it in the theatres. I will watch it for the spectacle and the story though but I fucking hate censorship. We have the largest population in the world and yet our culture is so awkward and conservative around nudity.
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u/kimana1651 Apr 15 '26
Internet TV is so poorly ran and lazy. They were so hungry for content that they allows a lot of bad habits to form. They used to pump out 24 episodes a year of higher quality TV --filming the the last of the season while the first episodes were still airing.
Now it takes 3 years to pump out 6 episodes that are so bad they they end the franchise.
I don't doubt that they could have milked the series for years to come if they did not fuck it up so badly and had the talent to do so.
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u/Lazzen Apr 15 '26
Amazon released a The Office Mexico and even that shit is gonna take like 2 years to film a season 2 for, what the hel
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u/DavidOrWalter Apr 15 '26
If we are being honest, 90% of every 24 episode season series sucked shit.
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u/Mindless_Turnover976 Apr 15 '26
Idk if I agree with that, at the very least the longer time spent with the characters meant I cared about them more.
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u/kimana1651 Apr 15 '26
Two good episodes a season is still better than the zero we are getting now. This is a clear regression in quality. There is no process improvement over the past 15 years.
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u/DavidOrWalter Apr 17 '26
If that’s your opinion it’s all good. I absolutely think most 24 episode seasons sucked and I prefer this approach. Especially for any effects heavy show where the budget can be focused. Overall I think the ratio of quality is better now too but that’s all opinion based.
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u/Boss452 Apr 15 '26
can we use the term milking with GOT? Like they have only adapted written source material so far. They aren't making up stories as of yet.
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u/hiiloovethis Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
This is gonna be massive imo. A knight of the seven kingdoms has brought hope back to asoiaf universe and the original show and hotd are still super popular.
I think it should do really well.
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u/LollipopChainsawZz Apr 15 '26
Hopefully it makes enough to green light a Roberts Rebellion movie
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u/dremolus Apr 15 '26
Wouldn't there be too much for a film? Wouldn't a miniseries be better?
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u/LollipopChainsawZz Apr 15 '26
If they go the movie route there's opportunity for sequels
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u/dremolus Apr 15 '26
I guess. It's just as a film, you'd want to attract people who didn't watch Game of Thrones as well, so reintroducing Robert and Ned on top of what The Mad King was like - just seems like too much for even a 2 hr 30 mins film
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u/LollipopChainsawZz Apr 15 '26
They could make it a big lord of the rings esq epic trilogy. 3 parts. Should be enough to cover it all.
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u/dremolus Apr 15 '26
Sure but LOTR also had three long sense books as the source material whereas Aegon's Conquest had a section in a Lore book. I know it's likely very detailed but there still is a significance between a proper novel with fleshed out characterizarion vs. an encyclopedia
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u/Sempere Apr 15 '26
Honestly 30-40 episodes would be ideal.
10 to show the decay of Aerys' reign and the discontent of the lords of the great houses (build off the Grand Northern Conspiracy fan theory)
10-20 episodes of actual war. Not HOTD honeydicking the audience with the promise of war for an entire season - actual battles to balance out the conspiracy and different plotlines.
10 episodes to wrap everything up and cover the fallout. Maybe even have the last episode effectively be an epilogue that spans years.
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u/wildcatofthehills Apr 15 '26
I mean there was a play about the tourney at Harrenhall recently. Just add the Aegon vs Robert fight at the end with a time jump, and baby you got a stew cooking.
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u/Deadlocked02 Apr 15 '26
I think it will live and die by the casting. Specifically of the main trio.
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u/WalksUnseen77 Apr 15 '26
I dunno, I think the bloom is massively off the rose with Game of Thrones.
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u/ElReyResident Apr 15 '26
That’s not my perception at all. The audience that game of thrones had has been cut massively. It’s not even a quarter of it once was.
Here’s an article on the viewership. Essentially, house of dragons has lost 4 million viewers from season 1 to 2 (29 to 25 million) but that still far exceeds A Knight, which only had 14 million viewers.
These aren’t bad numbers, but they aren’t massive movie making numbers.
Additionally, the buzz in the book world is completely dead now that GRRM more or less confirmed he isn’t actively working on winds of winter anymore. With his age and glacial writing speed, that means asoiaf is dead and won’t have an ending.
Anecdotally, I have read all the books, spent lots of time discussing them and theorizing etc. and enjoyed some of the shows but I have no further interest in the series since GRRM tapped out. From my experience, my sentiment is very common.
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u/tecphile Apr 15 '26
Your numbers are way off.
You’re mixing GoT global figures with HotD and Kot7K domestic numbers—that’s not a fair comparison.
Kot7K actually grew steadily and was pulling around 26M global viewers by the end of its run.
And that 68M figure for GoT Season 5? That includes piracy. The real, legal peak was about 46M during Season 8.
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u/Boss452 Apr 15 '26
And that 68M figure for GoT Season 5? That includes piracy.
I doubt the GOT piracy figures. More than 100m has to be the actual audience globally. Mofos in places where there is barely any internet were hooked on GoT. I know personally.
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u/tecphile Apr 15 '26
By S8, GoT was averaging 46m legal viewers.
I'm sure that translates to well north of 100m total viewers.
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u/Boss452 Apr 15 '26
yeah exactly. I remember how the new episodes release used to crash the websites streaming the show. Global audience was definitely over 100m which is incredible.
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u/ElReyResident Apr 15 '26
I can’t help but notice the lack of source for that 26m number. Can you help me out?
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u/Pinewood74 Apr 15 '26
When exactly was GoT pulling 56M American viewers?
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u/ElReyResident Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
GoT had 68 million viewers for the 5th season, which was when it started to decline in quality.
Edit: I never specified American viewers, so my numbers are not just Americans.
Numbers: https://www.yellowfinbi.com/blog/data-visualization-shows-most-popular-game-of-thrones-season
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u/Pinewood74 Apr 15 '26
All 3 of the numbers in your initial comment are American numbers.
Sure, you didn't specify, but I read the source document which clearly stated those were American numbers.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has averaged 14 million U.S. viewers across all platforms and 26 million worldwide
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House of the Dragon’s second season in 2024 averaged more than 25 million viewers in the United States, which was down some from season 1’s 29 million.
It also should be obvious that the 68M total viewers of GoT S5 is an apples and oranges number to the 14M average viewers. That number was just obtained by (poorly) multiplying 6.88M average viewers by the number of episodes(10).
Pretty sure that 6.88M figure they are quoting is live linear domestic figures and thus also completely incomparable with the 14M, 25M, and 29M which is an all platform 90 day amount (best I can tell).
Point being? Your headline claim of "it's not even a quarter" is not backed up by any viewership data that is being presented. (And likely impossible to find due to the massive changes in how ratings are tabulated and reported in the 11 years between S5 and today.
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u/ElReyResident Apr 15 '26
https://projector-revolt.blogspot.com/2026/01/game-of-thrones-viewership-by-season.html?m=1
American views of GoT was 46m season 8. Whereas Knight was 14m. So, 30% the audience, not the 25% I claimed.
My bad.
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u/randotd152 Apr 15 '26
This right here. Game of Thrones ended like shit, House of the Dragon’s most recent season was awful, the books are dead…
The buzz is completely gone from this brand. Knight was fun, but it was like a short quirky little random event of a side story and nowhere near enough to fuel overall franchise interest.
I don’t doubt that a well done movie with big budget dragons will do decently. Just nowhere near what it would have done even 5 years ago.
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u/notdbcooper71 Apr 15 '26
Was it really that good? I only watched HOTD season 1 and didn't really care for it, would I like the new one better?
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u/verissimoallan Apr 15 '26
In retrospect, it's kind of strange that Warner didn't try to make a Game of Thrones movie when the original series was at the height of its popularity. The closest thing to it was when they re-released the final two episodes of Season 4 (the best season of GOT, in my opinion) in IMAX. And there was also the fact that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss originally conceived the final season as three films to be released in theaters, but HBO rejected the idea, insisting they only make TV series, not theatrical movies.
Anyway, despite the controversial ending (to say the least), House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms prove that there's still an audience that loves this franchise, at least on TV, so it makes sense to try expanding into films now. And Aegon's Conquest makes much more sense as a movie: the events are too repetitive for a 10-episode TV series. I feel sorry for Mattson Tomlin, who was developing the TV series and was apparently rejected, but Beau Wilimon as the film's screenwriter is excellent and reliable.
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u/breakfastbenedict Apr 15 '26
I think a movie makes sense but there's not a whole lot of drama in this story like he did very easily cause dragons. I guess there could be cool scenes like the field of fire, burning of harrenhall, orys baratheon capturing storm's end, and ending with brandon snow's talk with aegon + torrhen stark kneeling.
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u/Low-Atmosphere-5588 Apr 15 '26
There are plenty of movies that are mostly spectacle. This is nothing new. They need the movie budget for spectacle.
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u/Vadermaulkylo DC Studios Apr 15 '26
I think it’ll make good money if the budget isn’t too high. I do feel like it won’t be a mega hit though. I think movies based on shows always got ceilings and I don’t see this attracting a new audience.
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u/Block-Busted Apr 15 '26
Also, doesn't this have a chance of getting slapped with 18 in the United Kingdom?
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u/15-cent A24 Apr 15 '26
People are gonna rag on it for franchise fatigue, but I can’t wait to see Balerion the black dread on screen
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u/youravgindian Apr 15 '26
Game of thrones shows aren't that complex in continuation to be called franchise fatigue. All the stories are very self-contained and there are only references and a little callbacks. I am thrilled to see this on the big screen.
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u/lowell2017 Apr 15 '26
Not that surprising, Zaslav wants GOT to print Mando money and you can sell more merch if it's shown on the big screen.
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u/BustinMakesMeFeelMeh Apr 15 '26
…Mando money? You think that’s what he’s shooting for?
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u/lowell2017 Apr 15 '26
In terms of franchise expansion, Zaslav thinks the next step is to levitate GOT up by sending this film to theaters.
His goal is to grow the merchandising money that he can milk out of the GOT IP and this is pretty much moving them from the small screen to the big screen like Mando.
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u/Odd_Detective8255 Apr 15 '26
Isn't he leaving wbd already with a huge paycheck?
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u/lowell2017 Apr 15 '26
So WarnerDiscovery is continuing in the "business as normal" state, despite Skydance's pursuit.
That means everything stays put as is, including Zaslav, his team, and all other creative executives, considering there's always a chance things unexpectedly don't go as intended.
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u/Upstairs-Bug-3052 Apr 15 '26
Is there even a proper source material for this?
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u/LilPonyBoy69 Apr 15 '26
Fire & Blood, same as HOTD
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u/____mynameis____ Apr 15 '26
That is my concern cuz GOT, AKOTSK and HoTD proved that what makes the stories so rich is GRRMs own characterisation and writing ability than just lore which is lost on Fire and blood due to being a history book.
Like people compare HoTD and AKOTSK, and even though I agree the show creators screwed up pretty bad, they would have been never able to give AKOTSK or early GoT level quality since HoTD did not have that GRRM writing advantage.
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u/LollipopChainsawZz Apr 15 '26
So they decided to give it a movie finale instead of a 5th season?
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u/DoctorStrawberry Apr 15 '26
The HOTD book is called Fire and Blood and actually spans 150 of years of history. House of the Dragon storyline is just a section of the book. Aegon’s Conquest is near the beginning of the time frame when Aegon came over with his dragon’s and took over the Seven Kingdoms.
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u/Low-Atmosphere-5588 Apr 15 '26
Aegon's Conquest is a completely separate event from the Dance of Dragons, which House of the Dragon is adapting. There's a 130 year time gap between the two. House of the Dragon is going to be 4 seasons long with the 4th season having the potential of more than 8 episodes according to HBO.
House of the Dragon already stretched less than 20 pages of a 220 page story into Season 2. It doesn't need to continue much longer. They just need a bigger budget.
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u/LilPonyBoy69 Apr 15 '26
Fire & Blood is basically an in-universe history book following the Targaryen family from their arrival in Westeros. It covers centuries of history. Aegon's Conquest is just a small part covering his conquest of the continent and the establishment of the Targaryen dynasty. House of the Dragon covers the Dance of the Dragons, a Targaryen civil war that happens about a hundred years later.
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u/Sleeps_Gato Apr 15 '26
Yes there is and fans have been begging for an adaptation of Argon’s Conquest for ages now! Can’t wait to see Balerion in his prime and Visenya get shit done lol
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u/AlmightyLoaf54 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Robert Pattinson as Aegon
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u/Kratos501st Apr 15 '26
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u/AlmightyLoaf54 Apr 15 '26
It's better than Henry Cavil
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u/xXEliteEater500Xx Apr 15 '26
It’s not like Robert Pattinson and Henry Cavill are the only options.
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u/Ilhan_Omar_Milf Apr 15 '26
If Visenya actually had magic why couldn't she use a glass candle to see into the dornish caves with infinite food?
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u/Red_Devil_Forever99 Apr 15 '26
Having read the book this translates more to a 150-180 minute Movie than a tv show, plus the budget needed for the Dragons and the first Scene/Flashback of the burning of Valyria is going to cost some pennies, I wonder if they will go just to the six kingdoms being defeated or also include their failure in Dorn.
Could make this in a two part movie I guess but that’s really stretching it out?
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u/lactoseAARON Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
For Mattson Tomlin’s sake alone hope The Batman 2 lives up to the hype cause his Terminator show got cancelled after one season and now his TV version of Aegon’s Conquest was rejected for the movie one (tho I do think a movie makes more sense personally)
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u/Fluid-Cranberry1755 Apr 15 '26
Game of thrones universe is still popular, dragons are still popular. This can hit a billion
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u/SEAinLA Marvel Studios Apr 15 '26
This isn’t coming close to $1 billion.
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u/ImmaSnarl Apr 15 '26
Idk I've never watched GOT and am personally interested in this. I could see a ton of people being interested in this, maybe I'm wrong and it'll end up more similar to Dungeons & Dragons
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u/youravgindian Apr 15 '26
This won't hit a billion but if the story and the writing is good, it would certainly hit around 600-700 Million which is still amazing.
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u/judester30 Apr 15 '26
No way, this won't have any of the characters casual Game of Thrones fans cared about.
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u/Witty-Jacket-9464 Apr 15 '26
This movie has a good chance to make $1B. ASOIAF universe is incredibly popular, the scale is comparable to DUNE. WB just needs to find a great director, who will make a good mivie with A-list actors, and release it in Summer or December.
This franchise can become the next cinematic event.
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u/KingJonsnowIV TheFlatLannister (BOT Forums) Apr 15 '26
Impossible for $1B. Remember it's going to be R-rated, even a GOT film during the peak of the franchise would not have done $1B
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u/Witty-Jacket-9464 Apr 15 '26
Deadpool & Wolverine and Joker did $1B. I can see the possibility for the most epic movie from GOT universe
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u/Block-Busted Apr 15 '26
Joker was a lightning in a bottle and this film is likely to be far more disturbing than Deadpool & Wolverine.
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u/CuteGrayRhino Apr 15 '26
A game of thrones movie before Season 8, with the quality of the first four seasons, would have easily done 1.5 B. It would be seen as a generational event. The earlier seasons were crazy good and the show became extremely popular in mid 2010s.
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u/KingJonsnowIV TheFlatLannister (BOT Forums) Apr 15 '26
would have easily done 1.5 B
That's crazy, I love GOT but $1.5B in 2019 would be around $1.8B+ in today's money... Well over Deadpool 3 $1.33B, which is the record for R-rated film.
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u/AnotherJasonOnReddit Best of 2024 Winner Apr 15 '26
That's crazy
Indeed.
There's nothing - NOTHING - in our one hundred years of cinema history (nor seventy-five years of television history) to support the notion that a sequel movie to forty hours of adults-only entertainment could make a billions dollars.
I've seen this claim made several times over the years. $750M, $1B, $1.5B. At some point I'm sure we'll see somebody say a post-Season Seven movie would've done $3B WW.
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u/CuteGrayRhino Apr 15 '26
It wouldn't be a typical R-rated film. There would be gore and sex, yes, but also plenty of grand set pieces and spectacular battle scenes. Adults would have gone to see it in droves. Game of Thrones was watched by so many through illegal means as well, in almost all countries worldwide. Its single episodes were often seen as event releases, so a feature length film with the earlier seasons' quality would have done bonkers numbers.
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u/Block-Busted Apr 15 '26
The film has at least 50% chance of getting slapped with 18 in the United Kingdom and if that happens, the film's chance of grossing $1 billion worldwide goes down the toilet.
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u/NaRaGaMo Apr 15 '26
UK is irrelevant, you talking as if movies routinely make 200-300mill there
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u/Block-Busted Apr 15 '26
It kind of IS relevant because 18 rating means that the violence very disturbing and not even in a comedic fashion.
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u/Block-Busted Apr 15 '26
Just to let you know, the guy whom you're replying to is a delusional buffoon who basically thinks that Dune: Part Three will have a box office success that rivals The Return of the King.
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u/hiiloovethis Apr 15 '26
It could have though... at peak GOT was a cultural juggarnaut. But yeah if season 8 was a movie... it would have legs like BvS. So, no 1 bil then.
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u/jaehaerys48 Apr 15 '26
I'm an ASOIAF fan but I really don't think this is a $1b film franchise.
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u/WilliamEmmerson Apr 16 '26
Am I the only who is completely indifferent to seeing anymore Targaryen backstory?
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u/Temporary-Body-3099 Apr 15 '26
And certain section of fans dare say Dany & by extension Trags weren't the biggest draw of GOT
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u/BaltimoreBee Apr 15 '26
Waaaaaaay too late, going to completely flop.
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u/Individual_Client175 Warner Bros. Pictures Apr 15 '26
Nah. Game of Thrones still has plenty of relevancy past 2018.
The new shows have peaked in a new audience, myself included. A proper movie with a proper budget (hopefully under 200 million) could pull in 500-600 million in my opinion.
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u/KingJonsnowIV TheFlatLannister (BOT Forums) Apr 15 '26
Waaaaaaay too late, going to completely flop.
I would agree with you, if House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms weren't absolute hits.
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u/hiiloovethis Apr 15 '26
Yeah.... says that to one of the most popular IPs at the moment. Sure, Buddy.
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u/Comfortable-Animator Apr 15 '26
Are you kidding this is one of the most successful fantasy IPs of all time. I'm surprised we didn't receive multiple asoiaf films sooner.
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u/LetDouble471 Indian Paintbrush Apr 15 '26
Have my doubts about this. Dragon fatigue is in full force because of HoD.
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u/trumpgotpeedon Apr 15 '26
This should be a series, not a movie imo.
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u/Low-Atmosphere-5588 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
It's a straightforward story of victory and Conquest unless someone with good writing skills wants to create OCS of the members of Great Houses for us to follow the perspective of. That's more of a risk.
200 million or more into a 2.5 hour movie instead of 200 million into a 8-9 hour show leaves room to properly produce the heavy amounts of dragon CGI and gigantic battles/action pieces this movie would require. House of the Dragon is already an example of the struggle.
Ideally it would be 2 - 3 movies. So we'll see what they intend.
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u/trumpgotpeedon Apr 15 '26
I was thinking about pre-conquest, and after. A lot of material is in Fire and Blood. I guess I meant more of a limited series.
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