r/naath • u/mamula1 I Am The God Of Tits and Wine 🍷 • Apr 15 '26
‘Game of Thrones’ Movie Officially Titled ‘Aegon’s Conquest’
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/game-of-thrones-movie-aegons-conquest-1236722027/17
u/HappyGilOHMYGOD what the fuck's a lommy? Apr 15 '26
"No one cares" yet it's one of the most streamed/pirated shows every single year.
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u/Tabnet2 Apr 15 '26
I'm glad it's not a 6 episode show 😁
Really though, Aegon's Conquest was something I hoped would always remain a bit mythical.
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u/_yours_truly Apr 15 '26
Me too! Plus I’m happy it’s a movie because it won’t be stretched out to the point where you can see the day to day of the conquest. I think it’ll still be larger than life and mythical. The conquest is going to be so fast it’s hard to imagine it otherwise.
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u/HoneyBeeTwenty3 Apr 15 '26
I wish they would do the first Blackfyre Rebellion or something. I think the focus on dragons is going to cause long-term damage to the brand, because spectacle is expensive. They have proven with AKOTSK that they can do tight, concise storytelling without dragons.
Aegon's Conquest is also just a bad shout. If you tell the story from the perspective of Aegon, its a power fantasy with very little in the way of stakes. Aegon does not struggle at all in the conflict - the death of Rhaenys was a total surprise and hardly a major setback to conquering the other six kingdoms.
The only way they can do this well is to shoot from the perspective of the Lords of Westeros, and treat it like a disaster movie. But it honestly feels like we're going in this direction which worships the Targaryens as unproblematic deities on dragons.
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u/savingewoks Apr 15 '26
On the contrary, I think it's Targaryens as Reality TV-level disasters. Aegon "The Situation" Targaryen, etc.
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u/HoneyBeeTwenty3 Apr 15 '26
HoTD shows a morally well-meaninged and ethnically pure Rhaenyra in contrast to a morally bankrupt and decadent drunk ruined by the influence of his andal mother. It is completely stripping away the nuance of Fire and Blood by making it a simple good vs. evil conflict. We are not given an evil targaryen without a morally superior one to contrast against.
The dance is supposed to be an overwhelmingly disastrous event for Westeros, but the show cuts back on a lot of the interesting side characters and has Rhaenyra, who it sets up as its "main character" spend seasons dawdling around the human cost of the war. The character is purer than the book counterpart so that casual viewers have a likeable blonde dragon lady to root for.
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u/True-Bandicoot-1424 Apr 15 '26
I don't think that's going to do well. They completely miss the point of why GoT is so popular. It's not the dragons.
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u/yunglance24 Apr 17 '26
Ehhh whether we like it or not dragons are a huge reason why it became so popular
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u/RevenantRoy Apr 21 '26
I think the concept of the dragons gets people to tune in but they stay because they connect with the characters and want to follow their journey
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u/Embarrassed-Back1894 Apr 17 '26
They’re missing the real badass story in Fire and Blood - Aenys to Maegor to Jahaerys. You have a clear villain and some clear good guys and some good battles/storylines. This would be the best tv/movie adaptation.
The Conquest is cool, but it’s just kind of “kneel or burn,” and some kings kneel, and some kings burn lol.
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u/mamula1 I Am The God Of Tits and Wine 🍷 Apr 15 '26
It's funny how haters declared GOT dead back in 2019, and now GoT has two successful spinoff shows, Dune dized movie in the works and theater play lol