Peter Dinklage can also be serving as a producer on the movie, which is a ardour venture for the Game of Thrones star.
Tubi has formally began manufacturing on The Thicket, a darkish Western thriller that is based mostly on the novel of the identical identify by Joe R. Lansdale. Deadline stories that Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) is ready to star within the movie alongside Juliette Lewis (Yellowjackets). The film is described as a “longtime ardour venture” for Dinklage, who’s additionally on board as a producer for the variation. Christopher Kelly wrote the script and Elliott Lester is directing.
“I’m so very excited to bring Joe Lansdale’s riveting story to the screen,” Dinklage, an enormous fan of the supply materials, mentioned in a press release. “A journey into the heart of darkness to find love and return it to its rightful place.”
Tubi’s Chief Content Officer, Adam Lewinson, added, “As Tubi deepens its dedication to a variety of genres, we’re extremely excited to start manufacturing on The Thicket, which has been a ardour venture for thus many concerned. This elevated Western thriller led by Peter Dinklage and an exceptionally proficient staff of artists delivers on style expectations whereas including a lot extra to make the journey into The Thicket distinctive and mesmerizing.”
Along with Dinklage and Lewis, The Thicket may even star Esme Creed-Miles, Levon Hawke, Leslie Grace, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Macon Blair, Ned Dennehy, Andrew Schulz, Arliss Howard, and Metallica’s James Hetfield.
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Word is that Dinklage has been making an attempt to make this film for extra the previous decade, going again to when he was starring because the fan favourite character Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones. Prior to the pandemic, he had one model of the venture all set to go together with a unique forged, however that incarnation died in improvement hell. Though the years continued to go, Dinklage clearly was by no means prepared to let go of the variation.
Per the report, the film “follows an harmless younger man, Jack (Hawke), who goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula (Creed-Miles) after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill (Lewis) and her gang. To save her, Jack enlists the assistance of a artful bounty hunter named Reginald Jones (Dinklage), a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave (Akinnagbe), and a street-smart prostitute (Grace). The gang tracks Cut Throat Bill into the lethal no-man’s land generally known as The Big Thicket — a spot the place blood and chaos reign.”
Dinklage is producing with Tubi Films, Estuary Films’ David Ginsberg, Nomadic Pictures’ Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev, Hollywood Gang’s Gianni Nunnari, MiLu Entertainment’s Andre L III, and The Exchange’s Caddy Vanasirikul and Brian O’Shea.
The Thicket does not but have a premiere date set at Tubi.