Game of Thrones Movie Is Coming

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Much similar winter, a Game of Thrones movie is coming.

The project—whose cinematic beingness began with the TV series, an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series—is successful the precise aboriginal stages of improvement astatine Warner Bros. Pictures, according to aggregate outlets. Because the discussions are conscionable beginning, nary actors, writers oregon directors person been attached to the film.

E! News has reached retired to Warner Bros. Pictures for remark but has not heard back.

The trek backmost to Westeros successful the signifier of a film, however, would beryllium a spot of a loop connected the way of Kingsroad, arsenic a bid of films was really 1 of the archetypal options for however the HBO bid should end, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“It mightiness request a diagnostic to necktie things up,” Martin told the outlet successful 2014. “Something with a diagnostic budget, similar $100 cardinal for 2 hours. Those dragons get existent big, you know.”

Since the Wall fell successful the last play of the Game of Thrones series—which ran for 8 seasons from 2011 to 2019 connected HBO’s streaming platform—multiple spinoff bid person been announced. House of the Dragon, the prequel bid acceptable astir 200 years earlier the events of the archetypal show, aired its divisive play 2 finale successful August.

And portion different prequel series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, is acceptable to debut successful precocious 2025, according to Deadline, a 3rd spinoff based connected Kit Harington’s quality Jon Snow was antecedently announced, but is nary longer moving forward.

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“It’s disconnected the table,” Kit told Screen Rant in 2023, saying the crushed for the cancellation was that the originative squad "couldn't find the close communicative to tell."

Ultimately, it’s the enactment changes astatine HBO and Max’s genitor institution Warner Bros. Discovery that person impacted improvement decisions for the Game of Thrones universe, according to Martin.

"All the changes astatine HBO Max person impacted us, certainly," helium wrote successful a December 2022 blog post. "Some [projects] are moving faster than others, arsenic is ever the lawsuit with development. A mates person been shelved, but I would not hold that they are dead. You tin instrumentality thing disconnected the support arsenic easy arsenic you tin enactment it connected the shelf."

As the satellite waits for much details of the Game of Thrones film, work connected to spot wherever the show’s stars are now.

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Kit Harington

Prior to making his onscreen debut arsenic knower of thing Jon Snow, Kit Harington acted connected signifier successful the National Theatre's adaptation of War Horse.

When helium auditioned for the relation of the Stark siblings' honorary brother, Harington told W Magazine, "I had a achromatic eye. I had been successful a combat the nighttime before...with this feline successful McDonald's. I deliberation that antheral who punched maine successful the look whitethorn person helped maine get the job!"

Despite his pivotal value to the show, Jon's mind-blowing (though yet brief) decease astatine the extremity of play 5 got to the actor, who said helium "had a shaky time" afterward.

"That was a clip erstwhile I started therapy, and started talking to people. I had felt precise unsafe, and I wasn't talking to anyone."

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Eventually, Harington came to clasp his and Jon's value to the show, adding, "It took maine a agelong clip to not think, I'm the worst happening successful this."

In summation to returning to the signifier (True West, Henry V, Slave Play), joining the MCU successful The Eternals and popping up connected HBO's Industry, the autochthonal Londoner married GOT love involvement (before the sister stuff) Rose Leslie in 2018.

"I convey the amusement for everything," Harington told GQ. "But much than thing else, I convey it for introducing maine to her."

The backstage brace stock 2 children, a son calved successful 2021 and a daughter who arrived successful 2023.

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Rose Leslie

For her audition to play Jon's Wildling person Ygritte, the Downton Abbey alum, went successful beauteous blind, not truly getting however large the amusement was. 

"I went into the audition unprepared," she admitted during an interview. "I wasn't alert of the show, I hadn't watched the archetypal season...I didn't recognize the pressure. Had I known the unit I don't deliberation I would've landed the occupation successful the archetypal place. I was blessed I was naive for the archetypal round." 

While Ygritte lone survived 2 seasons connected the show, she near a lasting interaction connected Jon...and Harington. 

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"We had a large chemistry together, I think," Harington said, picking their archetypal time of filming unneurotic arsenic his favourite time connected set.

After her clip connected GOT came to an end, Leslie joined the formed of The Good Wife spin-off The Good Fight, made a astonishment cameo during Harington's Saturday Night Live hosting debut to heckle him from the assemblage and had big-screen roles in The Time Traveler's Wife and Death connected the Nile.

And, spot above, she shares 2 children with her husband.

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Emilia Clarke

Like the elevated-overnight Khaleesi, Emilia Clarke learned connected the spell arsenic her character's powerfulness travel became the focal constituent of the show, racking up 4 Emmy nominations successful the process.

Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons, became so popular that Beyoncé, Mother of Blue Ivyonce came up to her and said, "Oh, my goodness, it's truthful fantastic to conscionable you. I deliberation you're brilliant."

Ahead of the premiere of GOT's last play successful 2019, Clarke revealed successful a New Yorker essay that, years beforehand, she had suffered 2 aneurysms aft filming the show's archetypal play and underwent encephalon country astatine 24.

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"It saved my life, literally," she wrote of the life-changing series. "The full show, the household that is simply a portion of this show, and the amusement itself, saved me, and Khaleesi, Mother of Dragons, saved my beingness for sure."

After Jon Snow enactment an extremity to Danaery's fiery powerfulness travel connected the bid finale, Clarke has since starred successful the twisty tear-jerker Last Christmas and played Nina successful a West End accumulation of Chekhov's The Seagull.

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Sophie Turner

Sophie Turner was conscionable 14 erstwhile she began playing Sansa Stark, having landed her first-ever onscreen relation aft auditioning for the portion astatine her precocious schoolhouse during her luncheon break.

Over the people of playing the progressively tortured (but yet triumphant) Sansa, Turner convinced her parents to follow Zunni, the canine that portrayed her character's dire wolf Lady.

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And portion it was a real-life crush connected Justin Bieber that informed her attack to Sansa being infatuated with the irredeemable Joffrey Baratheon, Turner yet joined Joe Jonas in 2019. Her sister successful Stark-ness, Maisie Williams, was 1 of her maids of honor.

Turner and Jonas split up successful September 2023, but stock 2 daughters, Willa and Delphine, and the histrion is now dating chap Brit Peregrine Pearson

While she mostly focused connected household aft her agelong reign connected GOT ended (and she was the titular villain successful the 2019 X-Men installment Dark Phoenix), Turner returned to the tiny surface successful the 2022 existent transgression play The Staircase and starred successful the 2024 ITV bid Joan.

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Jack Gleeson

Speaking of Joffrey, that aged so-and-so, Irish histrion Jack Gleeson did a bang-up occupation playing the creepy, entitled prince (and, soon, king successful request of a wife...and past different wife).

After Joffrey was dispatched via poison successful 2014, Gleeson pressed intermission connected acting to decorativeness his studies astatine Trinity College Dublin, wherever helium founded Collapsing Horse Theatre Company with immoderate schoolmates. 

He's since returned to the tiny screen, showing up connected Sex Education and The Famous Five, and has aggregate projects coming up, including Safe Harbor with GOT alum Alfie Allen

On the idiosyncratic front, Gleeson joined histrion Róisín O’Mahony in 2022.

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Maisie Williams

A miss had nary experience, with Game of Thrones serving arsenic a past 12 year-old aspiring dancer Williams' second-ever audition. 

"It's similar schoolhouse to me, it's truly shaped maine arsenic a person," she said successful an HBO featurette. "I'm truthful confident, I've got this assurance from the amusement and playing Arya."

But growing up successful the nationalist oculus wasn't easy for Williams, who said connected the Happy Place podcast with Fearne Cotton, "I deliberation I conscionable went done a batch of existent revelations wherever I was similar I'm not precise blessed doing this and pretending everything was fine."

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Maisie Williams

After GOT, Williams said, she wanted to "try to bash much things that I'm excited for alternatively than what radical privation maine to do."

She has since starred successful the X-Men spin-off The New Mutants, the U.K. constricted bid Two Weeks to Live and Pistol, and played Christian Dior's plucky sister successful the WWII-era Apple TV+ bid The New Look.

On the idiosyncratic front, Williams dated contention car operator Ollie Jackson for a fewer years, past was successful a relationshp with Reuben Selby until 2023—for agelong capable that she marked their breakup connected Instagram arsenic the "end of an era."

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Isaac Hemsptead Wright

Wright was formed arsenic Bran Stark (aka the Three-Eyed Raven aka Bran the Broken, King of Westeros) erstwhile helium was conscionable 10 years aged and recovered "soccer nine excessively cold" portion increasing up successful the English countryside, helium said connected Jimmy Kimmel Live. "So I thought what other could I do? Drama club."

Not lone did helium not debar the cold, it turned retired to beryllium hard to matriculate astatine assemblage successful 2017 portion destined for greatness connected the biggest amusement successful the world.

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In summation to being incapable to person the "normal" acquisition amid each the built-in attention, helium told Esquire  U.K., "I couldn't unbend and spell retired and person a portion oregon get drunk oregon whatever, due to the fact that if I did idiosyncratic would beryllium like: 'I saw Bran and helium was each f--ked up.'"

He dropped retired early, not slightest owed to his aggravated shooting schedule, but returned to assemblage successful 2019 to survey neuroscience. 

Still, aft spending fractional of his beingness connected GOT, helium wrote successful a 2019 effort for The Hollywood Reporter, "People adore the happening I person been a precise tiny portion of, and that is thing precise peculiar indeed."

He has since appeared successful the 2021 sci-fi thriller Voyagers.

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Peter Dinklage

Along with Sean Bean, who played the noble Ned Stark (for one season), Peter Dinklage is the lone different archetypal formed subordinate who did not person to audition, truthful recruited helium was to play Tyrion Lannister.

"When I archetypal heard they were funny successful maine for a phantasy show, I went, 'Ugh, no!' Especially being my size, I'm not truly funny successful playing a phantasy of a person," the Station Agent star reflected successful an HBO interview. "I'm an actor, I similar to represent existent people, and sometimes successful the satellite of phantasy that gets lost. This was the opposite."

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He yet won a grounds 4 Emmys for Best Supporting Actor successful a Drama Series.

Since GOT ended, Dinklage has astir notably starred in CyranoThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and Unfrosted, arsenic good arsenic lent his dependable to Rick and Morty and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

Off-screen, helium shares a girl calved successful 2011 and a lad calved successful 2017 with his theatre manager woman Erica Schmidt, who wrote the signifier philharmonic accumulation of Cyrano that was adapted into his 2021 film.

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Lena Headey

It was Lena Headey's bully person Dinklage who recommended the 300 actress for the relation of Tyrion's tyrannical sister Cersei Lannister.

During her tally arsenic the scheming queen regent, Headey went done a divorce and custody conflict with musician Peter Loughran successful 2012, with her ex revealing her reported $1 cardinal per episode GOT salary erstwhile asking for spousal support. The exes stock lad Wylie, who was calved successful March 2010.

In 2015, Headey welcomed girl Teddy with manager and puerility friend Dan Cadan, whom she joined successful 2018.

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Calling her clip connected GOT "life-changing," the five-time Emmy nominee told The Daily Beast in 2019, "With Cersei, it's been 8 years, truthful that quality is large successful people's minds, and present it's over. That tiny TV show...I admit each that success, and if it brings with it the information that radical deliberation that's it, I'm precise blessed to amusement them differently."

That aforesaid twelvemonth she starred successful the based-on-a-true-story wrestling dramedy Fighting With My Family and has since done a clump of dependable enactment and appeared successful bid including White House Plumbers and Beacon 23.

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau was the pb of NBC's short-lived New Amsterdam earlier landing the relation of dashing Kingslayer Jaime Lannister.

"I was similar a small puppy erstwhile I arrived," Waldau said of joining the series, "and coming to Belfast, I conscionable learned however to locomotion with pridefulness and joyousness and I'm moving from this acquisition arsenic a amended person."

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When it came clip to accidental goodbye to the show, the Danish histrion admitted helium was amazed by however affectional helium got. "I kept telling myself, listen, don't commencement getting each teary eyed. It's conscionable a job, it's conscionable a job, determination on. And past they started talking and, I don't know," helium told Esquire Singapore. "I deliberation it's something…I got a spot of soil successful my eye."

Since GOT, Coster-Waldau has appeared successful films including The SilencingAgainst the Ice and The Flash, and starred other Jennifer Garner successful the 2023 Apple TV+ thriller The Last Thing He Told Me, which successful March 2024 was renewed for a 2nd season.

He chiefly resides northbound of Copenhagen with his woman since 1998, Sascha Nukâka Motzfeldt, their 2 daughters and the household dogs.

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Gwendoline Christie

After joining GOT as Brienne of Tarth successful play two, Gwendoline Christie was amazed by the faction online that complained the 6-foot-3 histrion was excessively beauteous for the portion arsenic described successful George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books.

"Brienne truly made maine analyse the parts of myself that I thought I needed to beryllium concealed, that I felt nine was telling maine weren't bully enough," she told Variety successful 2019. "I was embarrassed to face my androgyny, oregon my strength, oregon my masculinity, and what I felt astir pistillate empowerment and sex authorities and the inconsistencies successful my assemblage and face. I was forced to face each of those things to get into the quality and that has been a large gift."

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She's been acting regularly connected signifier (a National Theatre Production of A Midsummer's Night Dream) and surface (principal Larissa Weems connected Tim Burton's Wednesday), but Christie has besides go a reliably breathtaking beingness connected reddish carpets and successful the beforehand enactment during each the cities' Fashion Weeks.

Christie has been successful a narration with British manner decorator Giles Deacon since 2013 and he's created immoderate of the gowns for her biggest reddish carpet moments implicit the years, calling her "a fantastic muse."

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John Bradley

It's ever the quiescent ones, with John Bradley's clever, loyal and yet rather brave Samwell Tarley becoming 1 of GOT's guiding lights.

Since the amusement ended, the classically trained English histrion has been connected the British bid Urban Myths and the Australian play North Shore, arsenic good arsenic connected Netflix's 3 Body Problem, the latest bid from GOT creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

Bradley besides appeared successful the 2022 sci-fi thriller Moonfall with Halle Berry and Jennifer Lopez's rom-com Marry Me

"In presumption of career, it’s a people of support that you tin act," helium told Oxford insubstantial Cherwell of his clip connected GOT. "If radical successful complaint of a amusement similar that spot you with it, past successful respect to the negativity it's conscionable astir shaking it off—it was specified an all-consuming thing. Now we conscionable privation to amusement that we tin bash different things, but adjacent if it’s the lone happening you bash successful a vocation it’s inactive been a bully career."

But he's been astir the artifact capable to know, helium added, "We were incredibly fortunate to not person a azygous atrocious property oregon toxic vigor wrong the full cast. That's rare."

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Nathalie Emmanuel

Cultural phenomenons turned retired to suit Nathalie Emmanuel, who broke retired playing Daenerys' right-hand pistillate Missandei and ended up portion of the Fast and Furious crew, starring successful the past 4 films arsenic hacktivist Ramsey.

The English histrion besides starred successful the 2019 Four Weddings and a Funeral limited bid connected Amazon and is connected the comedy Die Hart with Kevin Hart.

Emmanuel is portion of the ensemble successful the upcoming Francis Ford Coppola epic Megalopolis and stars successful the John Woo action thriller The Killer (the director's remake of his ain 1989 Hong Kong classic), streaming present connected Peacock.

She has been dating British histrion Alex Lanipekun since 2018.

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Richard Madden

Everyone called Richard Madden "the beauteous Richard" connected set, according to Turner, due to the fact that the Scottish histrion was conscionable "so lovely." 

It turns retired helium was besides truthful broke, revealing to Jimmy Fallon that helium was surviving disconnected conscionable $5 a time earlier landing the relation of Robb Stark, the doomed King successful the North. "I had 2 options: I could either bargain 1 meal, oregon a paper and a pint," helium recalled. "It went the different mode usually."

Madden admitted that the infamous 2013 "Red Wedding" episode, featuring galore a demise, including Robb's, was "a horrible day" connected set.

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But, helium went connected to triumph a Golden Globe for his relation successful the deed Netflix bid Bodyguard, and has appeared successful large films, including the Elton John biopic Rocketman, the acclaimed World War I play 1917 and the MCU ensemble flick The Eternals.

And regarding immoderate off-screen stuff, "I conscionable support my idiosyncratic beingness personal," helium told the New York Times in 2019. "I've ne'er talked astir my relationships."

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Alfie Allen

Alfie Allen's household isn't arsenic analyzable arsenic Theon Greyjoy's, but they're beauteous famous: mom's a producer, dad's an histrion and sister is Lily Allen. (Which means brother-in-law is David Harbour.)

But aft helium landed his breakout relation astatine 2022, Allen had to prohibition his older sibling from talking astir GOT in public.

"I americium not adjacent allowed to notation the letters of what the amusement starts with," Lily said during a 2014 interrogation with Australian vigor presumption Nova 969. "Alfie enactment maine nether strict orders."

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Alfie Allen

While he's starred successful bid like Harlots and White House Farm and appeared connected Broadway in Hangmen, Allen besides turned successful a chilling show arsenic Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh successful the indie thriller McVeigh, which premiered astatine the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival.

Allen welcomed a girl with spouse Allie Teilz successful October.

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Jason Momoa

Jason Momoa stole the amusement arsenic Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo, a antheral of precise fewer words, and has been moving beauteous perpetually since his one-and-done play on GOT.

He joined the DC Universe arsenic Aquaman, appearing successful a fistful of movies, including his 2018 standalone blockbuster, which grossed much than $1 cardinal worldwide, and its pandemic-delayed 2023 sequel, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.

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Jason Momoa

Momoa joined longtime spouse Lisa Bonet, with whom helium shares girl Lola Iolani (born successful July 2007) and son Nakoa-Wolf (December 2008), successful 2017, but the brace announced successful 2022 that they were splitting up aft 17 years together. Bonet filed for divorce successful 2024.

Momoa confirmed successful May 2024 via day nighttime PDA that he's been seeing Adria Arjona.

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