If we've learned anything from the tortuous final episodes of Game of Thrones, it's that nothing quite unites humanity like collective disappointment. This begs the question, given the news that Warner Bros is reportedly in the early stages of bringing George RR Martin's Game of Thrones to the big screen, exactly how much worse could it get than Bran ending up the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and Daenerys deciding... that her true passion was crowd control via dragon fire?
Perhaps this new film, of which we know little thus far, will make us forget all the horrors of that final season. Maybe there will be dragon fire, steely eyed armies of the undead and maniacal ambition to make Littlefinger's attempts at Machiavellian ladder-climbing look like a Riverrun poetry club debating the merits of sad fish ballads.
We just don't know, and the only way to work it out is by a process of elimination. It can't really be a movie-length remake of season eight, much as we would love it to be, because all the cast will now be at least a decade older. The only thing worse than having to sit through all that again would be to have to sit through all that again in the full knowledge that this is what they should have done the first time around.
It can't be a film adaptation of Martin's final two chapters of A Song of Ice and Fire because the beloved fantasy writer still hasn't got around to finishing them yet. And besides, we were always promised that GOT showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss only royally messed up the ending of the show because they had been told by Martin exactly how it was going to end.
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