Having been such a huge hit on the small screen, fantasy epic Game of Thrones could soon be coming to a cinema near you in the not too distant future.
Fans of the HBO series are already awash with excitement over the return of Season Four to our screens next month and, speaking at a New York premiere of the new season earlier this week, George R R Martin, author of the books on which the series are based, said that the prospect of a big screen adaptation had been actively discussed.
“It all depends on how long the main series runs,” Martin told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Do we run for seven years? Do we run for eight? Do we run for 10? The books get bigger and bigger (in scope). It might need a feature to tie things up, something with a feature budget, like $100 million for two hours. Those dragons get real big, you know.”
Martin has so far penned six books in the Song of Ice and Fire series, with a further edition ‘The Winds of Winter’ set to follow in the near future.
There would appear to be plenty of material to make several more seasons of the TV series and while a feature film to ‘tie things up’, as Martin said, is a possibility, a prequel film based on ‘Tales of Dunk and Egg’, a series of three novellas set 90 years before the depiction of events in the Song of Ice and Fire series is also being mooted.
“They could be the basis for [a film],” Martin added. “I have written these three stories, and I have about a dozen more.”
Whatever the case, whether it be on the small screen or the big screen, it looks as if there no sign of an end to the Game of Thrones bandwagon coming to a screeching halt just yet.
And that, friends, like every single moment the lovely Daenerys Targaryen (see above) spends on screen, can only be a good thing.
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