Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke has joined the cast of Criminal, Prime Video’s upcoming series adaptation of Ed Brubaker’s graphic novel.

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is about to hitch the cast of Criminal, Prime Video’s upcoming adaptation of the Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

Criminal tells “the interweaving saga of several generations of families tied together by the crimes and murders of the past.” Clarke will play Mallory, “a slick and daring armed robber, as fast with a gun as she is along with her wits. Part of a heist crew with Ricky Lawless (Gus Halper), who she’s in a passionate Bonnie-and-Clyde-like affair with. Mallory is a girl on the sting, residing on the unsuitable aspect of the legislation and hiding secrets and techniques that may carry her and her complete crew into the hazard zone.“

Charlie Hunnam will star in Criminal as Leo, “a brilliant master thief who sees all the angles, and specializes in plans with no guns and no violence. Like a chess player, Leo thinks three moves ahead. Other crooks think he’s a coward, especially compared to his father Tommy, who went to jail for murdering the most feared man in the city, Teeg Lawless.” In addition to Emilia Clarke and Hunnam, the cast of Criminal additionally contains Adria Arjona, Richard Jenkins, John Hawkes, Logan Browning, Kadeem Hardison, Pat Healy, Taylor Sele, Aliyah Camacho, Michael Mando, Marvin Jones III, Michael Xavier, and Dominic Burgess.

Ed Brubaker wrote the script for the pilot and can function co-showrunner of the series with Jordan Harper. Both may also govt produce alongside Sean Phillips, Sarah Carbiener, Phillip Barnett, and Legendary Television. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden will direct the primary 4 episodes of the series.

“Criminal is a beloved graphic novel created by the most iconic team in the history of comics,” stated Nick Pepper, head of U.S. SVOD wholly-owned growth, Amazon MGM Studios, when the venture was first introduced. “I do know our international Prime Video prospects will instantly embrace this story, and I look ahead to working with Ed, Jordan, and the staff to carry it to the display.“ Brubaker added, “Sean and I’ve been constructing this world in our books for over a decade, and now to have the ability to carry it to life for Amazon is simply unbelievable. And to have Amazon assist the venture the way in which they’ve, and present a lot religion in my and Jordan’s imaginative and prescient for the present is much more unbelievable.“