a Hollywood star to a virtually unknown English actor, the cast of the prequel of Game of thrones is taking shape. HBO has announced that Josh Whitehouse coprotagonizará this series, still untitled, next to the also british Naomi Watts, whose signing was confirmed previously.
Born in 1990, the young Whitehouse is known for his work in the costume drama Poldark. According to Deadline, is currently staring in the campaign of the new perfume from Burberry, Mr. Burberry. And has participated in the films Modern Life Is Rubbish, The Receptionist, Alleycats and Northern Soul.
Returning to the series, the past month of June, HBO gave the green light to this pilot. The story unfolds thousands of years before the events narrated in the Game of thrones and will discuss how the world descends from the period of peace known as the Age of the Heroes up to its darkest moment. According to the description, provided by the chain of cable tv, only one thing is for sure: “From the horrifying secrets of the History of the West to the true origin of the walkers white, the mysteries of This or the legend of the Stark, this is not the story that we think we know”.
just This week HBO announced that Watts lideraría the project as a charismatic woman of high society with a dark secret. It has not transcended any details about the character of Whitehouse.
The screenwriter Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass, Kingsman: the golden circle, X-Men) and the writer of the literary saga, George R. R. Martin, are the creators and authors of this story. Goldman shall, in addition, as a showrunner and writer for the main. Both will produce the series along with Daniel Zelman (Damages), the executive producer of Game of thrones Vince Gerardis, Jim Danger Gray (Orange Is the New Black, Hannibal) and Chris Symes (Alien vs. Predator, Resident Evil). The shooting for the potential series will begin at the end of the year in Belfast.
This is not the only spin-off of Game of thrones in development. In may of 2017 HBO began work on four other projects, all prequels, along with screenwriters Max Borenstein (Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island), Brian Helgeland (Legend), Carly Wray (Mad Men, The Leftovers, Westworld) and Bryan Cogman (Game of thrones). As announced at the beginning of the year Casey Bloys, president of programming of the string, not all will see the light and none will be issued before 2020.
The creators of Game of thrones, David Benioff and Dan Weiss, they will not participate in the future series. Instead, they will focus their efforts in the end of Game of thrones, whose premiere is scheduled for the first half of 2019.
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