‘7 Days in Hell’ with Kit Harington and Andy Samberg Gets a Premiere Date

Kit Harington, Andy Samberg Star in 7 Days in Hell
Andy Samberg in ‘7 Days in Hell’ (Photo Courtesy of SXSW)

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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