Metallica’s James Hetfield is ready so as to add to his performing resume, taking up an unspecified function in the upcoming darkish western movie The Thicket.
According to Deadline, the movie will star and is being produced by Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage and includes a forged that features Juliette Lewis (Yellowjackets), Esmé Creed-Miles (Hanna), Levon Hawke (The Crowded Room), Leslie Grace (In The Heights), Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Old Man), Macon Blair (I Care A Lot), Ned Dennehy (Peaky Blinders), Andrew Schulz (Infamous), Arliss Howard (Mank) and the Metallica frontman Hetfield.
The movie, which is being created for Tubi, has already begun principal pictures. Dinklage has been hooked up to the mission for a decade now, with the movie being based mostly off one in all 2013’s greatest historic fiction books penned by Joe R. Lansdale.
Per Deadline, the plot follows an harmless younger man, Jack (Hawke), who goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula (Creed-Miles) after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill (Lewis) and her gang. To save her, Jack enlists the assistance of a artful bounty hunter named Reginald Jones (Dinklage), a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave (Akinnagbe), and a street-smart prostitute (Grace). The gang tracks Cut Throat Bill into the lethal no-man’s land often known as The Big Thicket — a spot the place blood and chaos reign.
Hetfield has appeared on the large display screen earlier than in an performing capability, taking up the function of Officer Bob Hayward in the 2019 movie about serial killer Ted Bundy, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. He’s additionally appeared as himself in the Showtime collection Billions, on FOX’s long-running animated collection The Simpsons and in the Metallica-centered movies Metallica Through the Never and Metallica Some Kind of Monster. He’s additionally served as a narrator on 2017’s Addicted to Porn documentary and for the History Channel collection The Hunt.
These days, Hetfield has additionally been getting in loads of work in entrance of the digicam as Metallica have already dropped three new songs and movies from their upcoming 72 Seasons album. The new tune “If Darkness Had a Son” arrived earlier this week. 72 Seasons might be out in all places April 14. Pre-order your copy right here, and get tickets to Metallica’s upcoming tour at this location.
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