Trailer town: Jason Momoa, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and others in new movies
By Dan Selcke
As ever, the cast of Game of Thrones is in high demand. A couple of them are holding down major motion pictures to debut this summer, starting with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) in Shot Caller, a new movie from stuntman-turned director Ric Roman Waugh. Coster-Waldau stars as a family man who goes to prison after a car accident. Then things get heavy. Have a watch:
“Some criminals are made in prison.” Oooh, that’s deep.
Shot Caller looks pretty intense — Coster-Waldau’s experience playing Jaime should come in handy. The movie will get a wide released on August 18.
Next, rising star Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo) stars in the trailer for The Bad Batch, which is “[a] dystopian love story in a Texas wasteland and set in a community of cannibals.” I say that because I honestly didn’t know what the movie was about after I watched the trailer, but I know it stars Jason Momoa as an angry-looking fellow known only as “Miami Man.”
The Bad Batch comes from A Girl Walks Home Along at Night director Ana Lily Amirpour and debuts on June 23.
Across the pond, Indira Varma (Ellaria Sand) is set to star opposite Fortitude star Luke Treadaway in The Truth, about a woman (Varma) who suspects her new boyfriend may be sexually abusing her daughter. “Imagine if your partner was randomly accused of sexually abusing one of your children?” asked Bafta-award winning writer David Nath. “It’s hard to think of a more toxic allegation yet it happens far more often than we realise. This film explores the consequences of an accusation and how it suddenly makes you question everything you thought about the person you live with.”
Finally, Michiel Huisman (Daario Naharis) has joined Netflix’s upcoming 10-episode adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, based on Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel about four strangers who stay together in an 80-year-old mansion built by the Crane family. Shortly thereafter, spooky stuff starts happening.
Huisman will play Steven Crane, the oldest Crane sibling and an author who wrote an account of his family’s experiences in the house. It sounds like Netflix is putting its own twist on the story, as the surviving members of the Crane family don’t really factor into the novel.
One more thing before we go: John Bradley (Sam Tarly) posted this adorable pic of himself and Kit Harington on his Instagram.
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