News Game of Thrones Prequel cast announced (1 Viewer)

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The final season of Game of Thrones is so close you can practically smell the White Walkers, which means HBO is hard at work on the potential follow up and just revealed the additional cast members and director who will be joining Naomi Watts for the untitled pilot.

E! News has confirmed that Naomi Ackie, Denise Gough, Jamie Campbell Bower, Sheila Atim, Ivanno Jeremiah, Georgie Henley, Alex Sharp and Toby Regbo will join Watts and Josh Whitehouse in the Game of Thrones prequel pilot. No character information was announced for the new cast additions.

S.J. Clarkson has also joined the project as pilot director and executive producer. The potential series is created by Jane Goldman and George R.R. Martin with a story by the two and teleplay by Goldman. She'll also serve as showrunner. Other executive producers on the pilot include James Farrell, Jim Danger Gray, Vince Gerardis, Daniel Zelman and Chris Symes as co-executive producer.

THE PLOT
According to HBO, the series is set thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones, and "chronicles the world's descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour."

"And only one thing is for sure: from the horrifying secrets of Westeros's history to the true origin of the white walkers, the mysteries of the East to the Starks of legend… it's not the story we think we know," HBO said in its official logline for the series.


THE CAST

Naomi Watts will play a "charismatic socialite hiding a dark secret." Watts' other credits include Twin Peaks, The Impossible, 21 Grams, The Ring and King Kong.

Josh Whitehouse, of Poldark and Modern Life Is Rubbish fame, was also cast in the pilot, but details about his character are being kept under wraps.

Naomi Ackie: Ackie will play a role in this year’s Star Wars: Episode 9, and she recently starred in Idris Elba’s directorial debut Yardie and played a supporting part in 2016’s Lady Macbeth (pictured). She’s also appeared on an episode of Doctor Who.


Denise Gough: She recently appeared in the Keira Knightley drama Colette and the Showtime limited series Guerilla. In the video game sphere, she voiced the role of Yennefer in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Gough will next be seen on the big screen in The Kid Who Would Be King, the next film from Attack the Block director Joe Cornish.

Jamie Campbell Bower: Recently played Young Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts sequel, and has credits in Sweeney Todd, the Twilight movies (as Caius), The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and last year’s hot young Shakespeare show Will on TNT.

Sheila Atim: Variety says she’s primarily a stage actress who has been in multiple award-winning productions, and she currently plays Limehouse Nell on the Hulu show Harlots.

Ivanno Jeremiah: Stars as Max in the sci-fi series Humans (hence the green eyes in that photo), and has previously appeared in small roles on Doctor Who and Black Mirror.

Georgie Henley: Most famous for her role as Lucy Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia movies. She’ll soon show up in a new Starz series called The Spanish Princess.

Alex Sharp: I was lucky enough to see Sharp on Broadway a few years ago in a jaw-dropping, Tony-winning lead performance in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” and he’s since gone on to appear in movies like To the Bone and How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

Toby Regbo: Another Fantastic Beasts alum (playing Young Dumbledore), Regbo has also starred in The CW series Reign and the British historical drama The Last Kingdom.

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[Soleski]

oh great news
I hope it's going to be interesting :llama_cheer: