Game of Thrones movie titled Aegon's Conquest, flagged for '2027 and beyond'

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The Game of Thrones movie officially fires up with a new title, shedding more light on the franchise's future plans.

The film is titled Game of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest, as revealed in a Warner Bros. presentation at CinemaCon Tuesday, led by co-chairs and CEOs of the motion picture group, Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy.

Rather than actively address it in their remarks, the title was featured on a slide for the studio's "2027 and beyond" slate.

Beau Willimon, known for his work showrunning Netflix’s House of Cards series and as a writer on Disney+’s Andor, is writing Game of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest.

Warner Bros. and HBO considered multiple avenues for this particular story, involving Aegon I Targaryen and his conquest of Westeros. Author George R. R. Martin wrote about the events in Fire & Blood, his fictionalized history of the Targaryen dynasty.

Last year, screenwriter Mattson Tomlin (Terminator Zero, The Batman Part II) was reported to be in the early days of penning a series. Tomlin himself confirmed as much to Entertainment Weekly in May 2024, saying, "It kind of turns into doing Napoleon or doing Alexander the Great or doing some great historical figure where we know a lot about the guy."

Willimon's movie was the other primary option, and now it appears to be moving forward as the third Game of Thrones project to succeed the global TV hit, which concluded in 2019. It follows House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

House of the Dragon is currently gearing up for its third season, likely to premiere in 2026 ahead of its fourth and final season. The series began nearly 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones. The story tracks the events leading up to and during the Dance of the Dragons, the civil war between Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy) and her half-brother Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) over succession, a conflict that crippled the once imperious Targaryen empire.

The series already provided some clues as to what an Aegon's Conquest show could look like. Fans learned in House of the Dragon season 1 how Aegon experienced "dragon dreams" (i.e. prophetic visions) and foresaw a devastating winter bursting forth from the North to swallow the world. He believed that by traveling to Westeros and uniting all of the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule, the House's chief weapon (fire-breathing dragons) would be enough to prevent such a fate.