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  • ‘Game of Thrones’ sco-creators David Benioff, D.B. Weiss’ first Netflix film sets its cast of young rockers

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: The ‘Game of Thrones’ series co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’ first Netflix film ‘Metal Lords’ will star Jaeden Martell, Isis Hainsworth, and newcomer Adrian Greensmith.

    According to Entertainment Weekly, Jaeden Martell of ‘Knives Out’ and the ‘It’ movies will star in the coming-of-age comedy alongside Isis Hainsworth and newcomer Adrian Greensmith, who is currently studying at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

    Directed by Peter Sollett, ‘Metal Lords’ will be about two kids who want to start a heavy metal band “in a high school where exactly two kids care about heavy metal.”

    The film’s script has been penned by Weiss who will produce it alongside Greg Shapiro, Benioff, Bernie Caulfield, and Robin Fisichella as executive producers.

    ‘Rage Against the Machine’ and ‘Audioslave’ rocker Tom Morello will serve as the executive music producer for the film, which is set for global release on Netflix later this year.

    As per Entertainment Weekly, ‘Metal Lords’ is one of many projects coming out of this two-person brain trust. Benioff and Weiss are also working on ‘The Overstory’ series executive produced by Hugh Jackman, ‘The Three-Body Problem’ based on the sci-fi trilogy of the same name, and the half-hour Sandra Oh dramedy ‘The Chair’.

  • ‘Game of Thrones’ creators David Benioff, DB Weiss to develop ‘The Overstory’ as Netflix series

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: “Game of Thrones” showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss are developing a Netflix series based on Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Overstory”. According to Deadline, Benioff and Weiss will executive produce the series under their Netflix overall deal.

    Hollywood star Hugh Jackman will also serve as executive producer along with Bernie Caulfield of Benioff and Weiss’s Bighead Littlehead production banner. Published in 2018, “The Overstory” tells the story of a world alongside ours that is vast, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us.

    A handful of disparate people learn how to see that world and are drawn into its unfolding catastrophe. Richard Robbins has penned the pilot script and also executive produces the show. “The Overstory” series will be Benioff and Weiss’ third Netflix project after an adaptation of Liu Cixin’s sci-fi trilogy “The Remembrance of Earth’s Past” and “The Chair”, a six-part comedy series from showrunner Amanda Peet.