Metallica’s James Hetfield is ready so as to add to his performing resume, taking up an unspecified position within the upcoming darkish western movie The Thicket.
In accordance with Deadline, the movie will star and is being produced by Recreation of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage and encompasses a solid that features Juliette Lewis (Yellowjackets), Esmé Creed-Miles (Hanna), Levon Hawke (The Crowded Room), Leslie Grace (In The Heights), Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Previous Man), Macon Blair (I Care A Lot), Ned Dennehy (Peaky Blinders), Andrew Schulz (Notorious), Arliss Howard (Mank) and the Metallica frontman Hetfield.
The movie, which is being created for Tubi, has already begun principal pictures. Dinklage has been connected to the mission for a decade now, with the movie being primarily based off one in every of 2013’s finest 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 Minimize Throat Invoice (Lewis) and her gang. To save lots of 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 Minimize Throat Invoice into the lethal no-man’s land generally known as The Massive Thicket — a spot the place blood and chaos reign.
Hetfield has appeared on the massive display earlier than in an performing capability, taking up the position of Officer Bob Hayward within the 2019 movie about serial killer Ted Bundy, Extraordinarily Depraved, Shockingly Evil and Vile. He is additionally appeared as himself within the Showtime sequence Billions, on FOX’s long-running animated sequence The Simpsons and within the Metallica-centered movies Metallica By way of the By no means and Metallica Some Sort of Monster. He is additionally served as a narrator on 2017’s Hooked on Porn documentary and for the Historical past Channel sequence The Hunt.
Lately, 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 brand new tune “If Darkness Had a Son” arrived earlier this week. 72 Seasons can be out all over the place April 14. Pre-order your copy right here, and get tickets to Metallica’s upcoming tour at this location.
