Warner Bros. has officially dated the first-ever "Game of Thrones" feature film. "Game of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest" will hit theaters on June 1, 2029, taking Westeros to the big screen for the first time in franchise history.
Owen Harris will direct from a screenplay by Beau Willimon. Harris comes to the project from HBO's "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," where he directed three episodes of the six-episode first season, including the widely praised Trial of Seven sequence in episode five. His earlier credits include the "Black Mirror" episodes "Be Right Back" and "San Junipero." Willimon, the former showrunner of "House of Cards" and a writer on "Andor," was first linked to the project in March and was confirmed as the film's writer at Warner Bros.' CinemaCon presentation earlier this year, where the studio also announced the title.
As its title suggests, the film centers on King Aegon I Targaryen, the first king of the Targaryen dynasty and the man who conquered and united Westeros roughly 300 years before the events of "Game of Thrones." Known as Aegon the Conqueror, he arrived in Westeros with his sister-wives Visenya and Rhaenys and their dragons, Balerion, Vhagar and Meraxes. Together, they began the conquest that would ultimately establish the Targaryens as the ruling family of the Seven Kingdoms. It will mark the first time Aegon I has been depicted on screen.
The film draws on George R.R. Martin's "Fire & Blood," the same book behind "House of the Dragon," and will be the earliest story in the live-action timeline. Martin has previously described the project as a "massive Dune-sized feature film for theaters." The project has been in development in several forms: a 2017 pitch from Rand Ravich and Far Shariat was among the first HBO turned down, and in February 2024 screenwriter Mattson Tomlin was attached to a series version before Warner Bros. repositioned it as a film.
No cast has been announced, and there is currently no word on when production will begin. The film arrives after the remaining Westeros series on HBO: "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" Season 2 premieres in 2027, and the fourth and final season of "House of the Dragon" follows in 2028.
Photo: George R.R. Martin by Henry Söderlund, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.