Game of Thrones alum Nikolaj Coster-Waldau rose to prominence after playing Ser Jaime Lannister in the HBO phenomenon, but the actor will play a knight of different sorts in the upcoming movie Virtue.
Virtue is a gothic horror movie and follows Coster-Waldau as Sir Peter, a knight in 1350 in England who returns home from war along with his son to find his homeland ruined by fear.
Sir Peter stops a supposed witch from burning and then pledges to rescue a villager named Freya (Romola Garai), who has gone missing in a haunted forest that the rest of the village is petrified of.
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The film is written by Sam Hoare and directed by Joanna Coates, whose debut feature film Hide & Seek (2014) won best British feature at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
This isn't the only exciting casting news for Game of Thrones alums. Oona Chaplin, who played Talisa Stark in the HBO epic, was recently cast in Avatar 3.
Chaplin will play Varang, the leader of a new race of Na'vi — Ash People, who are a "volcanic race of people" that will serve as the antagonists of the third Avatar movie.
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Meanwhile, we recently got a first look at Jon Snow actor Kit Harington in his new TV series alongside Meryl Streep, Extrapolations. They will star alongside Edward Norton (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), David Schwimmer (Friends), Murray Bartlett (The Last of Us), and Gemma Chan (Don't Worry Darling), among others.
Extrapolations will explore climate change in a world in the near future wherein the human race must contend with environmental crises.
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