Game Of Thrones actors continue their cinema takeover
Speculative fiction movie projects just keep snapping Game Of Thrones actors up. It makes sense: performers on popular geek-friendly TV shows offer instant credibility and fan interest. Also, Game Of Thrones actors tend to be quite good at their jobs. Perhaps most importantly, there are a hell of a lot of GOT actors, and spillover would be inevitable regardless.
Earlier this week we got news that Lena Headey and Charles Dance would be starring in Pride And Prejudice And Zombies. Not to be outdone, their Tyrell rival Natalie Dormer recently took a part in the zombie movie Patient Zero. It’s being speculated the Dormer could be the female lead (albeit a zombified one) in the Stefan Ruzowitsky film.
Dormer is also, of course, scheduled to star in the next Hunger Games sequel. Another successful young adult fiction adaptation has cast another Game Of Thrones star as well….
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Aiden Gillen (Petyr Baelish) has joined the cast of the sequel to The Maze Runner, Scorch Trials. He’ll be playing a villain there as well, which The A.V. Club described as part of “…his campaign to be labeled the least trustworthy man in all of fiction.” It’s a fair description for Gillen’s most famous TV roles, the easily-corruptible Carcetti on The Wire and the gleefully-corrupting Littlefinger on Game Of Thrones. But I, for one, prefer to think of Gillen in terms of his old IMDB photo. Because kitten.
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