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  • ‘Game Of Thrones’ star Lena Headey to make directorial debut

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘300’ star Lena Headey is to make her feature directorial debut on psychological thriller ‘Violet’.Based on the successful recent novel by SJI Holliday, the story follows two solo female travelers who immediately hit it off and decide to team up for the next leg of their adventure, reports ‘Deadline’. According to ‘Deadline’, as the journey continues things start to unravel – because neither of the women is who they claim to be.Producers describe it to us as having elements of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Single White Female, while publishers have also compared it to Killing Eve. The book originally was optioned by Dark Alliance Film. Ed Boase and Marcus Stamps from the company are aboard as executive producers. Production is slated to start in October.Headey wrote and directed 2019 BAFTA-nominated short film ‘The Trap’ and directed her GoT co-star Maisie Williams in a music video for singer Freya Ridings. The Emmy nominee recently starred in Netflix action-thriller ‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ and upcoming ‘The White House Plumbers’.Headey said: “Susi’s Violet is a compulsive page-turner that stayed with me long after I finished the book — it’s exciting that my first feature as a director will be such an intense female thriller. It’s a wild ride to the finish with vast cinematic scope, centering around two very complex women who will completely unravel over the course of the film. I can’t wait to get rolling.”Phil McKenzie, Goldfinch’s Chief Operating Officer, added: “Goldfinch Entertainment exists to fuel incredible projects and creative leaps – and we’re excited to be supporting the multi-talented Lena Headey’s foray into feature directing with this irresistible and chilling female-fronted thriller.””Gareth has deftly selected and adapted an impossible to put down the book into a riveting exploration of a casual friendship that goes deeply awry – and we can’t wait to see it come to life on screen.”

  • Karen Gillan, Lena Headey starrer ‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ to release in Indian theatres on Sept 10

    By PTI

     MUMBAI: Action thriller “Gunpowder Milkshake”, featuring “Guardians of the Galaxy” star Karen Gillan, is set to open theatrically in India on September 10.

    Directed by Navot Papushado, the female-driven thriller also features “Game of Thrones” star Lena Headey and will be released in the country by PVR Pictures.

    “Gunpowder Milkshake” follows the story of Sam (Gillan), a brutal hit-woman who is forced to confront her vulnerable side when she goes rogue to protect an innocent eight year old girl.

    Crossing paths with Scarlet (Headey), a cunning assassin and the mother that abandoned her, Sam assembles a ragtag team of killer women to wreak havoc on the shady organisation that ruined her life.

    Filmed on location in Berlin, the movie also stars Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, and Paul Giamatti.

    “Gunpowder Milkshake” was released in the US on July 14 by Netflix with a simultaneous limited theatrical release.

  • Lena Headey to star in HBO’s Watergate series ‘The White House Plumbers’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: “Game of Thrones” star Lena Headey is heading to HBO again for the network’s Watergate series “The White House Plumbers”.

    Headey will join actors Domnhall Gleeson, Woody Harrelson, and Justin Theroux for the limited series, coming from “Veep” executive producers Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck, David Mandel, and Frank Rich.

    “The White House Plumbers” tells the true story of E.Howard Hunt and G.Gordon Liddy, Richard Nixon’s own Watergate schemers, who unintentionally crumbled the presidency they were so desperately trying to preserve, as per Collider.

    Based on public records and Egil and Matthew Krogh’s book “Integrity”, the show will feature Headey as Dorothy Hunt, a mother of four and active CIA asset.

    She must try to hold her family together as she becomes increasingly tangled up in her husband Howard’s messy plots, the website added.

    Headey, best known to fans internationally for her performance as Cersei Lannister on “Game of Thrones”, is also set to appear in AMC’s thriller “Beacon 23” and will provide voice-over work for Kevin Smith’s “Masters of the Universe: Revelation”.

  • Lena Headey to headline psychological thriller series ‘Beacon 23’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: “Game of Thrones” star Lena Headey is set to feature in and executive produce “Beacon 23”, the series adaptation of Hugh Howey’s psychological thriller novel.

    The project, created by Zak Penn, hails from Spectrum Originals and AMC Networks, reported Deadline.

    Headey will back the show via her Peephole Productions, as part of her first-look deal Boat Rocker Studios, which co-produces “Beacon 23” with Spectrum Originals.

    The suspenseful thriller follows two people, Halan and Aster (Headey) whose fates become entangled after they find themselves trapped together at the end of the known universe.

    Aster mysteriously finds her way to a lonely beacon keeper, Halan, on his lighthouse in the darkest recesses of space.

    A tense battle of wills unfolds as Halan begins to question whether Aster is friend or foe as her ability to disguise her agenda and motives could make her a formidable opponent.

    Katherine Pope, Head of Spectrum Originals, said Headey was perfect to play Aster.

    “We had exactly one person in mind when thinking about who could play Aster – who could bring the strength, the vulnerability and the brilliance to Zak’s complex character? No one but Lena Headey.

    We couldn’t be more excited to go on this thrill ride with Lena and Zak leading the way,” Pope said.

    Penn, who also serves as showrunner on the series, said Headey was already a versatile actor before she gave “one of the defining performances in television history” as Cersei Lannister on the HBO show “Game of Thrones”.

    “So, as they say, ‘no pressure’. I’m thankful to all the people making this show possible, they just keep delivering beyond my expectations,” he said.

    Dan McDermott, president of original programming for AMC Networks Entertainment Group and co-president of AMC Studios, said having Headey on board “elevates” the series in every way.

    “Having known and worked with Lena the past few years my admiration for her inspiring talent is unending.

    I’m so thrilled that Lena embraced the role of Aster and equally happy she’ll be executive producing through her production company Peephole,” added O’Connell Marsh, vice-chairperson, Boat Rocker Studios.

    “Beacon 23” will have a nine-month exclusive run for Spectrum before becoming an AMC original with a second window across AMC Networks platforms.

    Headey will next be seen in films like “9 Bullets” and “Gunpowder Milkshake”.