Naomi Watts (50) joins to the sprawling Fantasy world of “Game of Thrones”: The British-Australian actress (“King Kong”, “21 grams”) will take over the main role in the planned pilot film for a still untitled spin-off series, such as the US-industry leaves “Variety” and “Hollywood Reporter” reported on Tuesday.

In June, it was reported that the U.S. channel HBO to tell in a Prequel, the history of the fight for the throne of the continent Westeros.

As the authors of the pilot film, the British writer Jane Goldman (“Kingsman: The Golden Circle”) and your US-colleague-George R. R. Martin were committed. Martin is the Creator of the Fantasy Saga “a Sahabet song of ice and fire”, on the TV series “Game of Thrones” is based.

The history is to play several Thousand years before the medieval Saga “Game of Thrones” and tell the story of how a Golden heroes age to a dark world. Watts is a charismatic lady-play, which is guarding a dark secret, it said on Tuesday. The Name of your character, however, was not known.

The eighth and final season of the award-winning Fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” when HBO 2019 on the air. The production of the final six episodes to run in the previous autumn.

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