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After making her mark on television audiences with her role as Daenerys Targaryen in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke is returning to the small screen.
The 37-year-old actress has signed on to star in Prime Video’s new television series Criminal, according to Variety.
The series will be based on the Criminal comic book series that launched in 2006 by iconic comic book writer Ed Brubaker and illustrator Sean Phillips.
Clarke joins a cast that already includes Charlie Hunnam, Richard Jenkins, John Hawkes, Adria Arjona, Logan Browning, Kadeem Hardison, Pat Healy, Taylor Sele, Gus Halper, Aliyah Camacho, Michael Mando, Marvin Jones III, Michael Xavier and Dominic Burgess.
Clarke will play Mallory, who is described as “a cunning and daring armed robber, as quick with a gun as she is with her wits.”
After making her mark on television audiences with her role as Daenerys Targaryen in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke is returning to the small screen.
The series will be based on the Criminal comic book series that launched in 2006 by iconic comic book writer Ed Brubaker and illustrator Sean Phillips.
She is part of a heist team with Ricky Lawless (Halper), “with whom she has a passionate Bonnie and Clyde-style relationship.”
Mallory is also described as “a woman on the edge, living outside the law and hiding secrets that will take her and her entire team into the danger zone.”
The project received a series order in January, with Brubaker writing the pilot script based on his comics, and he and Phillips serving as executive producers.
The show is described as “an intertwining universe of crime stories,” with Brubaker serving as co-showrunner alongside Jordan Harper (Hightown, Gotham, The Mentalist).
The original comic series originally debuted in October 2006 as a 10-issue series that was later published as two trade paperbacks.
The second volume debuted in 2008, with two miniseries arriving in 2010 and 2011 and a number of other specials published throughout the 2010s.
Brubaker and Phillips released the original graphic novel My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies in 2018, which would finally reveal a character set in the Criminal universe.
The success of that book led to the relaunch of Criminal as a monthly series beginning in 2019.
She is part of a heist team with Ricky Lawless (Halper), “with whom she has a passionate Bonnie and Clyde-style relationship.”
Mallory is also described as “a woman on the edge, living on the wrong side of the law and hiding secrets that will land her and her entire team in the danger zone.”
The original comic series originally debuted in October 2006 as a 10-issue series that was later published as two trade paperbacks.
Brubaker, Phillips and Harper will serve as executive producers alongside Sarah Carbiener and Philipp Barnett.
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Captain Marvel, Mississippi Grind) have also signed on to direct the first four episodes.
Clarke is best known for playing Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones, though she returned to the small screen last year in Marvel’s Secret Invasion.
She is also set to play Jean Kerr, the wife of Cold War Senator Joseph McCarthy in the biopic McCarthy alongside Michael Shannon as the title character.
