The Game of Thrones movie is coming but how are they going to make audiences root for the baddies?

"Aegon arrives from Dragonstone with three dragons and demands that the kings of Westeros submit. When several refuse, he burns their castles and armies until they surrender. And that, at least according to the existing lore, is pretty much that."

"Aegon's conquest is the sort of story cinema was invented for: dragons blotting out the sky, castles melting like cheese toasties under a blowtorch; an entire continent being thrillingly upended by a bunch of platinum-haired dragonlords."

"The interesting thing about the Targaryens in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels is that three centuries of inbreeding and dragon-whispering have apparently turned them into a nest of brittle, giant-lizard-obsessed autocrats who would rather incinerate half the realm than share power with anyone."

Warner Bros is adapting George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire universe into a feature film centered on Aegon Targaryen's conquest of Westeros. The story follows Aegon's arrival from Dragonstone with three dragons, demanding submission from Westeros's kings and burning those who refuse until they surrender. This conquest united six of the seven kingdoms approximately 300 years before the HBO Game of Thrones events. A companion TV series will reportedly cover similar material in greater detail. The conquest presents cinematic potential with dragons, melting castles, and continental upheaval. The Targaryens, shaped by centuries of inbreeding and dragon-obsession, became brittle autocrats unwilling to share power, establishing the dynasty's defining characteristics.

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