How will the Game of Thrones movie make audiences root for the baddies?

There must be a few Game of Thrones fans who have mixed feelings about the news that Warner Bros is to bring George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire “universe” to the big screen. On the one hand, the prospect of a properly enormous fantasy epic featuring dragons the size of commuter trains is undeniably appealing; on the other, have they really thought this thing through?

Reports suggest the feature film will take as its source material Aegon Targaryen’s conquest, which brought the purple‑eyed, dragon‑riding clan to continental Westeros about 300 years before the events of HBO’s Game of Thrones. In The World of Ice & Fire and Fire & Blood, Martin describes Aegon arriving from Dragonstone with three dragons, demanding submission and burning castles and armies until kings surrendered.

To all intents and purposes, they sound like the baddies. This probably means the film will need to perform some fairly heroic feats of narrative gymnastics.

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