* The Game of Thrones dominance continues to spread to the big screen as the show's cast lock up one major role after another. Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister on the hit HBO series, has just signed on to star in Hop Frog, based on the Edgar Allan Poe story about “a puppeteer who poses as a court jester to exact revenge on the knights who murdered his uncle and kidnapped the woman he loves.” Mark Palansky (Penelope) will direct the story which Dinklage himself calls "beautiful and vicious". Sounds perfect for a Lannister, doesn't it? Dinklage is currently filming a mystery role in Bryan Singer's X-men: Days of Future Past. [Screen Daily]
* Viggo Mortensen will tackle his first French-language role in Far from Men, a film based on one of six short stories in philosopher Albert Camus' book, Exile and the Kingdom. Written and directed by David Oelhoffen, the story centers on a “French teacher in a small Algerian village in 1957 during Algeria’s war of independence from France. He is ordered to take a dissident to the authorities to turn him in but the two men unexpectedly bond.”
* His schedule now opened up after being replaced in The Raven by Gerard Butler, Liam Hemsworth has found another action role to take its place. He'll star in Aurora Rising, written by Christian Gudagest (A Man Apart) and follows "a Southern California surfer turned military fighter pilot who, after acing a complicated and messy first combat mission, gets recruited to be part of an elite team to test the next generation of aircraft." [Deadline]
