Game of Thrones‘ Kit Harington (‘Jon Snow’) and Andy Samberg, who’s currently busy working on the top secret Lonely Island movie, star in the HBO mock sports documentary 7 Days in Hell. The tennis-based comedy will premiere on July 11, 2015 at 10pm ET/PT which is the first weekend of Wimbledon. Jake Szymanski directed from a script by Murray Miller, with tennis greats John McEnroe, Serena Williams, and Chris Evert showing up in cameos.
The plot: “This outrageous sports ‘documentary’ brings together Andy Samberg and Kit Harington for a look back at a pair of fictional players from the not-too-distant past, who played on the longest and greatest tennis match of all time: a seven-day, five-set marathon that took literally everything out of them. In addition to highlights (and lowlights) from the match, the special looks back at the lives and careers of the competitors: Aaron Williams (Samberg), a hyper-malcontent, and Charles Poole (Harington), a dim-witted prodigy who carried England’s hopes for a tennis champion on his shoulders.”
In addition to playing the bastard son of Eddard Stark/the man who knows nothing in HBO’s critically acclaimed dramatic series Game of Thrones, Harington also starred in the action epic Pompeii, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, Testament of Youth, and had a supporting role in Seventh Son. Samberg stars in Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine. His other credits include Hot Rod, I Love You, Man, That’s My Boy, Hotel Transylvania, and The To-Do List.
-By Rebecca Murray
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