Joseph Mawle is leaving Westeros and heading straight to Center-earth: The Game of Thrones actor has joined the forged of Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings adaptation, our sister web site Deadline is reporting.
Character particulars are being held tightly underneath wraps to this point, however Deadline says Mawle will play the present’s main villain named Oren. He joins Black Mirror alum Will Poulter, who’ll play younger hero Beldar, and Markella Kavenagh (Picnic at Hanging Rock), who’ll play Tyra, in the essential forged. Amazon’s adaptation — which earned a multi-season order from the streamer again in November 2017 — will precede the occasions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s bestselling fantasy guide collection, which had been tailored right into a blockbuster trilogy of movies directed by Peter Jackson.
On Game of Thrones, Mawle performed Ned’s brother Benjen Stark, a Evening’s Watch ranger who disappeared throughout a mission north of the Wall and finally sacrificed himself to save his nephew Jon Snow. He appeared in a complete of eight episodes of the HBO hit, final showing in Season 7’s “Past the Wall.” He’s not the solely GoT veteran to be part of Amazon’s Lord of the Rings, both: Bryan Cogman, who was a author and producer on Game of Thrones, will function a marketing consultant on the new adaptation.
