'Game of Thrones' Movie In the Works (thewrap.com)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/03/04/0013218/game-of-thrones-movie-in-the-works
- Source link: https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/game-of-thrones-movie-beau-willimon-warner-bros/
> The Targaryens have been at the center of all things "Thrones" on HBO, with "Game of Thrones" following Daenerys Targaryen's (Emilia Clarke) quest to usurp the throne, spinoff "House of the Dragon" set in the midst of the Targaryens' reign and recent spinoff "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" following the squire-ship of Aegon "Egg" Targaryen towards the end of the family's run atop the Iron Throne. All, of course, based on George R.R. Martin's expansive book universe.
[1] https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/game-of-thrones-movie-beau-willimon-warner-bros/
[2] https://pagesix.com/2026/03/03/hollywood/game-of-thrones-movie-in-the-works-after-acclaimed-screenwriter-submits-prequel-script-to-warner-bros/
Which was shittier? (Score:3)
The final season of "Game of Thrones", or the final season of "House of Cards"?
Sad, since both were so good once.
"You may well ask that, but I couldn't possibly comment."
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I feel bad for the House of Cards crew, because it wasn't their fault. Still, it wasn't nearly as disappointing as GoT final season.
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I actually saw most of House of Cards -- the BRITISH original was over all a BETTER series! Did you know there was a great show they simply remade with higher production costs? It was able to finish the story while Netflix freaked out ad wrecked the show because the star had a sex scandal; the genius writer turned out unable to write beyond slight modifications. Idiotic how the villain can't be allowed to actually be one in real life...
Perhaps this movie will be the story of how Paramount took over HBO.
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> Did you know there was a great show they simply remade with higher production costs?
Was the "You may well ask that, but I couldn't possibly comment." quote not a give-away?
But given the original was a set of 4-part mini-series, I would not say "simply" remade.
As for cancelling Spacey, they had no choice.
> the situation became impossible for Netflix to ignore when eight current and former House of Cards employees came forward. They described a "toxic" work environment and alleged that Spacey had engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment on the set of the show itself. At that point, keeping him became a massive legal and HR liability.
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Such a shame because I really like Spacey's work but it sounds like he got what he deserved.
got (Score:2)
Game of thrones was a good story, but I could never understand why there would be a world with wraiths (white walkers), and dragons but pretty much no other mythical creature. That part seemed contrived to be.
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There were many more things than just wraiths and dragons hidden in the shadows.
One thing that I found intriguing with the Song of Ice and Fire novels was that that magic and mythical creatures were not part of people's daily lives, not even the nobles' and scholars'.
They were all myths , where in most cases you couldn't tell whether something was real or imagined.
That way of clouding the supernatural in myth and imagination is one that George R R Martin had used before. My first intro to his works had been
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But that's the thing... If it were a world full of mythical creatures, it would be impossible for humans to avoid them. The story you described just seems silly to me. Like he made up something just to sell a book.
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They don't have our technology, they don't have our population, and they don't have our globe-spanning civilization.
Magic faded so long ago that the current population thought it was just stories until magic began to return and mythical creatures started spreading out and coming into contact with humans again - but even then, it took a while because different groups of people were more interested in killing each other than cultural exchange and communication.
I have problems with GoT, but the general lack of
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It started out as a world without any supernatural creatures or magic. Then it has started returning. There is a genre in fantasy of 'the fading world' where magic and wonder is going away for various reasons. GoT's trajectory is in the opposite direction, so maybe that answers your question. I look forward to the horde of snarks and grumpkins arriving from the far north in book 7.
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Ok I have read the books and I don't remember anything indicating anything was coming back except for the dragon egg hatching. There is a circus in the book and they don't even have mythical creatures. Still say that the fact that they manage to avoid everyone in the whole world except to where they are important to the a story is a big weak point for me. It's a cop out to sell stories.
Re: got (Score:1)
It's almost like the author is making up a story that didn't even really happen to sell books!
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The White Walkers are a myth that even the black watch don't believe existed, yet here they come. Melisandre is surprised by her power. Thoros of Myr was a drunkard who pretended to be a red priest, yet suddenly discovered ability to raise the dead. The maesters had a joke about getting apprentices to fruitlessly try lighting a black candle as part of their initiation, yet suddenly the candles have started burning. Euron at sea seems to have some sort of Cthullu magic starting.
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But the white walkers aren't new. They just go away in summer.
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Off the top of my head there were also wargs, giants, zombies, and what I think were dryads (the ones who made the White walkers). I also remember references to other stuff beyond the wall
Re: Put a CHICK IN IT. Make it LAME and GAY (Score:4, Funny)
This reminds of that old memorex commercial, "is it real or is it grok?"
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it's worse, as they pointed out, this is a real person turned into a invasion of the bodysnatchers NPC pod-person by watching braindead youtube commentators like critical drinker and their ilk and then listening to nothing but right wing podcasts. scary shit, it could happen to you too, you could wake up like the pod person there. no soul, no brain, no thoughts.
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It's amazing the dystopian universe some conservatives have created for themselves to live in.
Re: Put a CHICK IN IT. Make it LAME and GAY (Score:2)
And it's a world most women don't want to live in. If you dig chicks, that seems a little, uh, weird to me.
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You mean hating women and/or wanting to subordinate them doesn't get most of them a lot of action!? Well color me surprised.
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it is divine will!! right?
Next season of Knight of 7 Kingdoms (Score:1)
Is 3 episodes, 15 minutes each.
The rating (Score:1)
So will the make an unrated soft core porn movie like the shows? Or will they tone it down to get an R?
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"Game Of Tits" we call it 'round here
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Movie (Score:3)
The monthly shows in the serial were ~56 minutes. So the movie is like 90 minutes so it's probably not a big stretch of effort to produce this. Like the X-Files movies. It's a TV episode and a half.
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The average major movie is a bit longer than that; in many cases I wish they were only 90 minutes, but blockbusters these days are usually well over the 2 hour mark, and in many cases heading to 2 and a half hours. E.g. Avengers: Endgame - 181 minutes, Oppenheimer - 180 minutes, The Dark Knight - 152 minutes. So if they were to tend towards the epic end of the scale, as you'd kind of expect for a Game of Thrones movie, it might be more like three episodes long, almost a third of a season.
Re: Movie (Score:3)
Two things we didn't have when the X Files movie came out: Shooting in digital and AI. The movie we probably be four hours long.
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I love a good 90-minute movie. If the pacing is right, it can suck you right in and hold your attention. But I'm sure this is going to be at least 3 hours... my money's on 3h 36m since it's just going to be a remake of Lawrence of Arabia.