What do the (former) cast members of Game of Thrones get up to when not trompsing around the Seven Kingdoms? Quite a lot, as it turns out.
First up, Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) has a new gig. Per Entertainment Weekly, she’s joined the voice cast of a new animated science fiction series called gen:LOCK, playing one of several young pilots recruited to control giant, weaponized robot bodies. Williams plays Cammie MacCloud, “a mischievous Scottish hacker with boundless energy, and the youngest recruit to the gen:LOCK program.”
The cast also includes Michael B. Jordan and David Tennant, which is pretty high-profile for what looks at this stage like a standard anime drama. Check out a trailer below.
Gen:LOCK will premiere in January exclusively on Rooster Teeth.
Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) has landed a new job as well, starring opposite Henry Golding of Crazy Rich Asians in the upcoming holiday romance Last Christmas, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will be directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Spy) with a screenplay by Bryony Kimmings and Emma Thompson (yes, that Emma Thompson). Last Christmas, if you can believe this, is based on the Wham! song of the same name, so it’s already the best movie of whatever year it debuts.
Meanwhile, Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Bolton) has a new a new role in the VOD horror film The Mermaid’s Song, a twisted take on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic The Little Mermaid. You might know the story best from Disney’s family-friendly adaptation in 1989. This is…different.
The official description, from Entertainment Weekly:
The film is set during the 1930s Depression and tells of young Charlotte, who is struggling to keep the family business afloat. When gangster Randall [Rheon] offers to pay off the family debt he demands some illegal changes to the business. But Charlotte, like her mother before her, is a mermaid capable of controlling humans with nothing but her voice, which creates a battle between all of those who want Charlotte’s magical powers for themselves.
Rheon plays the gangster, because of course he does. He is so dead.
In less spooky news, over the weekend, Mark Addy (Robert Baratheon) and Ian McElhinney (Barristan Selmy) appeared at the Winterfell Festival, held on the grounds of Castle Ward in Northern Ireland, the real-life Winterfell. Longtime Game of Thrones spy A Red Priestess has a series of photos from the event:
Addy sat down for a Q&A with attendees, where he was asked about the theory that Robert’s arrival at Winterfell foretold doom for everyone he touched.
Well, erm, ha! I don’t think that was a conscious decision. That’s just the way it fell. That’s an interesting conspiracy theory though! You’ll have people thinking that King Robert was responsible. Oh blimey! I think that’s just the way it worked out though.
Sorry, Game of Thrones conspiracy theorists. There’ll be more.
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