A Game of Thrones movie may be coming – but do we really need it?

With multiple prequel shows already in production – and George RR Martin showing no signs of finishing his book series – what can a Thrones movie really add to the franchise?

Spoiler alert – discusses ending of Game of Thrones

If we’ve learned anything from the tortuous final episodes of Game of Thrones, it’s that nothing quite unites humanity like collective disappointment. Which begs the question, given the news that Warner Bros is reportedly in the early stages of bringing George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones to the big screen, exactly how much worse could it get than Bran ending up the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and Daenerys deciding, after years of liberating cities and freeing people, that her true passion was crowd control via dragon fire?

Perhaps this new film, of which we know little thus far, will make us forget all the horrors of that final season. Perhaps it will usher Game of Thrones back into the light from the shadows of Jon Snow being packed off tediously to the frozen north and Jaime and Cersei dying boringly under a load of rocks. Maybe there will be dragon fire, steely eyed armies of the undead and maniacal ambition to make Littlefinger’s attempts at machiavellian ladder-climbing look like a Riverrun poetry club debating the merits of sad fish ballads. Or perhaps it will be about Tyrion’s desperate, increasingly drunken quest to uncover the last hidden bottle of Arbor Gold in Westeros.

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