Game of Thrones is turning the Targaryens into Rise of Skywalker's Sith

Too many upcoming Game of Thrones projects are centering on Targaryen wars. The untitled movie reportedly focuses on Aegon’s Conquest, and its script is in producers’ hands at Warner Bros. as that studio navigates a contentious buyout by Paramount Skydance. In George R.R.

Martin’s novels the Targaryens are only a small part of a sprawling story, and the lack of a single entrenched villain is what gives the books their complexity. Early spin-offs such as House of the Dragon take a long look at Targaryen rule, while A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and the upcoming stage play Game of Thrones: The Mad King also return the spotlight to the family’s chaos and regime change.

That repeated focus risks making the franchise feel narrower and its antagonists more alike. When many projects emphasize dragonriders and similarly drawn, power-hungry Targaryens, the villains can start to feel like a single archetype — the same problem critics found in the Star Wars sequels, which leaned heavily on resurrections and familiar villain templates.

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