Is "Game of Thrones" coming to the big screen? Apparently, yes, and this is according to the book's author George R.R. Martin, ibtimes.com reports.
With the success of the popular HBO hit series, "Game of Thrones," in the 67th Annual Primetime Emmys in Los Angeles, bagging 12 wins, "GoT" producers are curious to know how it will do outside the confines of the small screen.
Martin is focused working on book 6 of his seven part "Song of Ice and Fire" saga and never really made any impression about the TV series adapting to the big screen, but that just changed. In an exclusive report by the Daily Star, the author admitted to a "Game of Thrones" movie underway but also said that he won't have a hand on it.
"There will be a movie but I will not be involved," he said. "I have too much to do. That is something HBO and [producers] D.B. [Weiss] and David [Benioff] are dealing with. I have two more books to finish and I still have so much to do. The pressure is on. I am such a slow writer and the fans get upset that I don't write faster."
"Game of Thrones" film story has different fruitful territories that can be explored and expanded into a one-off movie plot. King Robert's rebellion had stirred fans' interest and this could be a good event to explore. What was perhaps the biggest historical turning point for the fictional world of Westeros was Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) and Ned Stark's (Sean Bean) success in overthrowing the Targaryen dynasty was only told through exposition on the series and is probably a journey that fans want to experience deeply in a movie.
Love, loss, battles, revenge and betrayal - "Game of Thrones" series has all the needed ingredients of a great story worth telling on the big screen. Should the "GoT" producers choose to dive into the past, Martin thinks that fan-favorite characters who have already met their grisly end on the "GoT" TV adaptation could be resurrected.
In the HBO fantasy drama, "Game of Thrones" season 6, fans can look forward to two more seasons before the show finally comes to a close. Fans would then be confronted with either a "Game of Thrones" prequel movie, or a one-time feature length motion picture finale which fans wouldn't be happy to hear.
But fans can stay calm for now as HBO programming president Michael Lombardo is avoiding upsetting the network's loyal subscribers by confusing them of the "Game of Thrones" finale, he told Entertainment Weekly.
"Certainly there have been conversations where it's been said, 'Wouldn't it be cool to do that?'" he said. "But when you start a series with our subscribers, the promise is that for your HBO fee that we're going to take you to the end of this. I feel that on some level [a movie would be] changing the rules: Now you have to pay $16 to see how your show ends."
