Game of Thrones Prequel Pilot Casts Five Potential Series Regulars

Five new cast members have signed on for HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel pilot. Deadline reports that Marquis Rodriguez (When They See Us), John Simm (Strangers), Richard McCabe (Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams), John Heffernan (Dracula) and Dixie Egerickx (The Secret Garden) are all set to play roles in the new prospective series. Should the show get picked up, they will be series regular roles.

The quintet join a cast that includes Naomi Watts, Josh Whitehouse, Naomi Ackie, Denise Gough, Jamie Campbell Bower, Sheila Atim, Ivanno Jeremiah, Georgie Henley, Alex Sharp, and Toby Regbo. S.J. Clarkson (The Defenders, Jessica Jones) is directing the pilot for the series, which is created by Jane Goldman and George R.R. Martin.

The pilot is set thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones and chronicles the world’s descent from the Golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour. And only one thing is for sure: from the horrifying secrets of Westeros’ history to the true origin of the white walkers, the mysteries of the East to the Starks of legend… it’s not the story we think we know.