Actor roundup: Jason Momoa gets a TV show, and Kit Harington is in a movie with…Adele?

As always, the Game of Thrones cast are keeping busy with side-projects. A few particularly interesting bits of news have surfaced in the past couple days.

Let’s start with something solid. It’s been years since Jason Momoa impressed/intimidated audiences as Khal Drogo on Game of Thrones, but Hollywood’s interest in the actor has not flagged. He’s already been cast as Aquaman in Aquaman, one of Warner Bros.’ many upcoming superhero projects (he’ll also pop up in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice). Now, Entertainment Weekly reports that he’s going to headline his very own show on Netflix: a Western called Frontier.

Netflix describes the show as “an action-packed adventure drama following the chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in the late 18th century. Told from multiple perspectives, the series takes place in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close-quarter hatchet fights, and where delicate relations between Native tribes and Europeans can spark bloody conflicts.”

Given some of the things Momoa did on Game of Thrones (I’m looking at you, that time Khal Drogo ripped out a dude’s throat with his bare hands), he should be right at home with “bloody conflicts” and “close-quarter hatchet fights.” The way the news is being reported, it seems like Momoa is the lead, although there’s no information on his character. Perhaps he’ll be the most prominent of the “multiple perspectives” Netflix mentions in its description.

The first season of Frontier will be six episodes long. If it doesn’t work out, Momoa will always have the sea.

And now for something less solid: Deadline is reporting that music superstar Adele is in talks to appear in The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, in which Kit Harington will play a movie star whose pen-pal relationship with an 11-year-old actor gets revealed and exposes him to some ill-founded assumptions. (The director of Donovan, Xavier Dolan, recently directed the music video for Adele’s internet-destroying single “Hello“.)

If the talks pay off, Adele would just make a cameo, but it would still be odd to see Jon Snow in the same movie as the “Rolling in the Deep” lady.

Finally, we have some updates on Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister). Here he is as the Egyptian god Horus in Lionsgate’s Gods of Egypt, which is coming to cinemas in February of next year.

Poor Coster-Waldau—if he’s not getting his hand chopped off as Jaime, he’s getting his eye gouged out as Horus. “Guy who loses body parts” is a weird thing to be typecast as.

Incidentally, this trailer has caused some controversy, since it features a cast of mainly white actors playing Egyptian roles. If that (or whatever else) tanks it, Coster-Waldau can rebound with 3 Things, a thriller in which he plays a prime suspect in a bank robbery. In this movie, which will also star Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (Karsi from “Hardhome”), Coster-Waldau’s character will negotiate his entry into the witness protection program under extreme time pressures.

So basically, it’s a good time to be a current or former Game of Thrones cast member. Roles for everybody.

H/T Variety