Kit Harington will play a violent gunrunner in Blood for Dust
By Dan Selcke
Game of Thrones star Kit Harington (Jon Snow) has scored a role in a new action thriller, according to Variety. He’ll play a gunrunner named Ricky in Blood and Dust, about a criminal partnership that goes out of control.
The lead character is Cliff (Scoot McNairy), a traveling salesman struggling to make a living. He used to be friends with a guy named Ricky, Harington’s character, who has gotten rich dealing in illegal weapons. After they reconnect one day, the hard-up-for-cash Cliff agrees to partner with Ricky, who is expanding his gunrunning business to include cross-state deliveries on behalf of John (Josh Lucas), a mid-level cartel boss. Cliff agrees to retrofit his station wagon to carry dozens of kilos of drugs. Surely nothing could go wrong, right?
But of course it does. Ricky ends up violently eliminating the competition, and Cliff is suddenly in a lot deeper than he intended to be.
Kit Harington flips the script on Jon Snow in Blood for Dust
Blood for Dust is directed by Rod Blackhurst, who sounds psyched about it. “While ‘Blood For Dust’ is a story born from the realities of our times, it’s also a pulse pounding thriller about family, pain, greed, mobile defibrillator units, the American dream and its contradictions therein,” he said. “I’m beyond grateful to be getting into the trenches alongside Scoot McNairy, Kit Harington and Josh Lucas — all of them fathers, like myself, working to take care of our families while anxiously wondering what the future of our times has in store as we tell this parable of America.”
It’ll be fun to see Harington play a more violent, ruthless character after watching him as Jon Snow — the moral center of Game of Thrones — for years. He can channel his inner Lannister for this one.
There’s no release date for Blood for Dust as of yet.
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