'The Thicket' is easily the coolest sound film for a long, long time. Can Peter Dinklage pull it off?
Peter Dinklage, the American actor best known for starring as Tyrion Glennister in HBO's Game of Thrones, has signed on to play a crafty bounty hunter in the period crime drama The Thicket.
Peter Dinklage is set to star in 'The Thicket', which sounds pretty awesome
Dinklage will play Shorty, a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave and street-smart prostitute who's enlisted to find a woman who has been kidnapped in East Texas by a violent killer at the turn of the 20th century. He and fellow hunters venture into the deadly no-man's land known as the Big Thicket, a play where "blood and chaos reign".
The movie is being produced by Dinklage, his manager David Ginsberg and Gianna Nunnari's Hollywood Gang.
More: how to sum up 'Game of Thrones' in 45 seconds? ask Peter Dinklage
More: Peter Dinklage gets loads of sex - if sex means gardening
"That Joe Lansdale's dark vision will be brought to life by the brilliantly talented Peter Dinklage starring as Shorty - it is a dream of mine," said Nunnari. "This is the kind of original movie with edge and style that Hollywood Gang is hungry for; luckily we found all these things in The Thicket. We cannot wait to share this movie with audiences around the world."
Nunnari is a big-time producer and has worked on thriller Se7en and action-epic 300. He's currently developing the historical epic Napoleon and Blood In, Blood Out.
As for Dinklage, he's currently shooting the comedy sci-fi Pixels, about video game experts recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who have attacked New York. Chris Columbus directs, with Michelle Monaghan and Adam Sandler starring. The movie - which sounds interesting to say the least - hits on July 24, 2015.
Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe prepares to come to a climax as ‘The...
When a pioneering inventor and scientist named Gordon Dunn (Martin Donovan) is assassinated in his...
Somebody messed with the wrong mother when they murdered her daughter Angela Hayes (Kathryn Newton)....
Melissa McCarthy brings another of her improvisational alter-egos to the big screen with this energetic...
There's nothing particularly memorable about this frantic animated romp, which adapts the iconic phone-app game...
Angry Birds Movie is a screen adaptation from the popular game in which we follow...
Michelle Darnell is one of the most successful businesswomen of her age. She's loud, boisterous...
Red lives on a sun-kissed tropical island full of plenty of other vibrant flightless birds....
Ahead of the release of comedy adventure 'Pixels' later this summer, the cast of the...
Back in the eighties, NASA sent a time capsule up into space to connect with...
In 1982, Earth created a time capsule of popular culture from the era, and sent...
Continuing to be the most original and resonant of the Marvel superhero franchises, the X-men...
The world is verging on an apocalyptic disaster as the mutants continue to engage in...