Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington and Zero Dark Thirty actor Jennifer Ehle have joined the upcoming feature based on TV spy thriller Spooks.
Harington, best known for playing the heroic Jon Snow in HBO fantasy drama Game of Thrones, will star in the lead role as Will Crombie.
Ehle, whose recent credits also include The King’s Speech and Contagion, will play Dame Geraldine Maltby of intelligence service MI5.
The pair will join original Spooks star Peter Firth in the big screen outing of the BAFTA Award-winning BBC spy drama, which Altitude Film Sales is debuting here.
Spooks: The Greater Good will shoot in the first quarter of 2014, produced by Shine Pictures and Kudos.
Shine Pictures’ Stephen Garrett said: “We’ve set out to make a gripping, cinematic, contemporary spy thriller - one that builds on the history of the show and its legacy of questioning the world around us, but which also delivers as a standalone film for a new, global audience.”
The film is to be directed by Bharat Nalluri who was the originating director on the TV series.
Written by Spooks collaborators Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent, the film will be produced by Jane Featherstone and Stephen Garrett who were behind the TV series for the BBC and Ollie Madden (Sherlock Holmes), for Shine Pictures.
Kit Harington is repped by United Agents, CAA and lawyer Karl Austen. Jennifer Ehle is repped by ITG and ICM. Peter Firth is repped by Markham, Froggatt & Irwin and Innovative Artists.
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