Yahoo Movies Hunger Games star Tom Blyth lands next lead movie role
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes star Tom Blyth has landed his next major movie role.
According to Deadline, Blyth will star alongside Talk to Me’s Sophie Wilde in an upcoming adaptation of UbiSoft’s hit video game series Watch Dogs.
Mathieu Turi (The Deep Dark and Meander) is set to direct the film from a screenplay by Christie LeBlanc and Victoria Bata.
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The Watch Dogs franchise includes three games – Watch Dogs (2014), Watch Dogs 2 (2016), and Watch Dogs: Legion (2020) – which each immerse players in a world where rebel hackers use their skills to fight against oppressive forces that are controlling entire cities.
Further details on the live-action adaptation, including which game it will be based on, who Blyth and Wilde will be playing and any further castings will be announced in due course.
Blyth was also recently announced for Carmen Emmi’s directorial feature debut Plainclothes, in which he’ll star opposite Gavin & Stacey and Looking actor Russell Tovey.
Set in '90s New York, the film will follow an undercover police officer who is tasked with arresting gay men.
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Blyth, whose breakthrough role saw him as a young Coriolanus Snow in last year's Hunger Games prequel, has also been cast in Michael Winterbottom's new film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel A Farewell to Arms.
He will play volunteer ambulance driver Frederic Henry, who falls for his nurse in Italy during World War I.
"I want our film to be true to Hemingway's approach – immediate, raw and natural – and I think in Tom Blyth we have found the perfect person to be Frederic Henry," said Winterbottom.
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