Irish actor Jack Gleeson, best known as the cruel king Joffrey Baratheon in the fantasy show Game Of Thrones, has been cast in an upcoming series from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
Happy Valley actor James Norton will join Gleeson in the eight-part Netflix show House of Guinness, which charts the rise of the brewing family.
Also taking on roles is Irish stage actor David Wilmot, Whistleblower actress Hilda Fay, Obituary star Danielle Galligan, Ballykissangel actress Dervla Kirwan, Everything Now actress Niamh McCormack, Handsome Devil actor Fionn O’Shea, The Responder star Emily Fairn, Enola Holmes actor Louis Partridge and Manhunt actor Anthony Boyle.
The 32-year-old Gleeson will be reunited with fellow Game Of Thrones stars Michael McElhatton, who played Roose Bolton in the series, and Seamus O’Hara, who had a short stint on the HBO show and was in Oscar-winning short film An Irish Goodbye.
Netflix says House Of Guinness will “reimagine” the fallout from Benjamin Guinness’s death and be set in 19th-century Dublin and New York.
They called Benjamin “the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery”.
Netflix says the story will look at “the far-reaching impact of his cunning will on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne and Ben, as well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the growing juggernaut that is Guinness”.
Knight is already working on a film of Peaky Blinders for Netflix, with Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy set to return as crime boss Tommy Shelby.
House Of Guinness is now in production, with a release date not yet confirmed.
Source: Press Association
