Sophie Turner to play the Dark Phoenix in upcoming X-Men movie, and more celebrity news

Sophie Turner’s star is continuing to rise. Last year, she appeared as mutant Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse, a major action flick tentpole. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed the name of that movie’s sequel, due out in 2018: Dark Phoenix.

Comic book fans will know that the Dark Phoenix saga is an important story from the X-Men comics. It centers around Jean Grey playing host to a powerful cosmic force, becoming destructive, and eventually dying. In short, it basically means that Turner will be the star of the movie. That certainly bodes well for her future in Hollywood.

Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) is also hard at work, although her latest project isn’t quite as high profile. She’s currently working on The Flood, where she plays an immigration officer named Wendy. Here she is below with costar Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont).

When it comes to British film and television productions, it’s impossible to go too far without having an impromptu Game of Thrones reunion.

In the movie, Wendy works on the case of a refugee named Haile — the film chronicles Haile’s journey from war-torn Eritrea to England. Headey is also producing the movie, and is clearly passionate about how refugees are treated. “I understand there are safety issues, and screenings for security, but it could be so much more human and compassionate,” she told The Guardian. “It’s horrendous that after the journeys that these refugees go through, they are then treated immediately with suspicion and fear.”

"This film is about the horrors of what is happening every day to the refugees coming to Europe, and how appalling and frightening it is to sit by while it goes on…I hope it will provoke similar kinds of conversations. It’s amazing how quickly it seems to have died down even though it’s as a bad as it ever was."

Other (former) members of the Lannister clan are getting gigs, too. For example, Eugene Simon (Lancel Lannister) will be playing Eduard Einstein, Albert Einstein’s schizophrenic second son, in Genius, an upcoming film about the famous physicist. “Eduard is someone I was fascinated to play,” Simon said to Fox News.

"The more I read about him, the more I became very interested in how his future developed… and then when I discovered that it would be Geoffrey Rush no less to play my father — this is an actor I’ve looked up to my entire life. He’s [one of] the top five, if not the top three, actors I most admired. Filming with Geoffrey was a real dream. I had to pinch myself at times."

Genius comes out on National Geographic on April 25.

Not everything is happening in front of the camera. Variety reports that director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain) is in talks to direct a sci-fi movie called Gemini Man. How does this relate to Game of Thrones? Because Gemini Man, about an older assassin who discovers that his bosses have sent a younger clone of himself to kill him, was an early script written by GoT showrunner David Benioff. His stock has obviously risen since he wrote that.

Finally, let’s take a brief walk down memory lane and watch Luke Roberts (Arthur Dayne) practice for the fight at the Tower of Joy in season 6. You’ll recall that he duel-wielded swords for that fight. It looks as dangerous during rehearsals as it did during the episode.

He’s like the world’s deadliest windmill.