Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones‘ Tyrion Lannister) is attached to star in and produce the crime thriller The Thicket set up with Gianni Nunnari’s Hollywood Gang. The film is based on Joe Lansdale’s bestselling novel and will find Dinklage starring as a bounty hunter. There’s no word yet on who will direct or when production might get underway.
“That Joe Lansdale’s dark vision will be brought to life by the brilliantly talented Peter Dinklage starring as Shorty – it is a dream of mine,” said Nunnari, announcing the casting. “This is the kind of original movie with edge and style that Hollywood Gang is hungry for; luckily we found all these things in The Thicket. We cannot wait to share this movie with audiences around the world.”
Dinklage called the story completely original, adding, “The characters and the world they inhabit jumped from the pages for me in such a cinematic way.”
Dinklage’s other credits include X-Men: Days of Future Past, Knights of Badassdom, A Case of You, Death at a Funeral, Penelope, and The Station Agent.
The Plot:
The Thicket has been hailed as one of the best American crime novels to emerge in recent years. Set in tough, turbulent and feral East Texas in the early 20th century, this dark thriller follows the story of Jack, an innocent young man, who goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister after she has been kidnapped by a violent killer, Cut Throat Bill, and his gang. Jack enlists the help of a crafty bounty hunter named Shorty (Dinklage), a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave, and a street-smart prostitute. Together they track the girl into the deadly no-man’s land known as The Big Thicket – a place where blood and chaos reign.
-By Rebecca Murray
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