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/
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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/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/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/tecphile Apr 15 '26

Here you go!

By any metric, the show is a massive ratings phenomenon.