\n\tGame of Thrones actor Stephen Dillane, Feud: Capote vs the Swans star Tom Hollander, Irish actor Stanley Townsend, and Sky Yang, who starred in Last Days, have joined the rabble-rousing forces of\u00a0The Uprising, Paul Greengrass\u2019 period drama being made by Focus Features.<\/p>\n
\n\tAndrew Garfield leads the feature that is now in production, portraying the leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II. As the war burns across England, he forms an army of the people to face the King\u2019s might in a fight for justice and survival.<\/p>\n
\n\tAlso lined up as embattled peasants and assorted overlords are Jamie Bell, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Woody Norman and Katherine Waterston.<\/p>\n
\n\tJason Blum is producing through Blumhouse, alongside Gregory Goodman, Joanna Kaye and Greengrass.\u00a0Lars Sylvest will also produce through Thank You Pictures and Joe Neurauter will produce through Supernix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tFocus, which is behind the buzzy award season movies Hamnet, directed by Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, and Bugonia, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, is set to distribute the film domestically.<\/p>\n
\n\tBAFTA-winning actor Dillane is best known for his performance of Stannis Baratheon, a tragically misguided lord in HBO\u2019s Game of Thrones. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHollander can be seen portraying Alfred Hitchcock in Netflix\u2019s\u00a0Monster: The Ed Gein Story,\u00a0the third season of Ryan Murphy\u2019s gripping anthology series. This marked Hollander\u2019s second collaboration with Murphy, following his acclaimed starring turn as\u00a0Truman Capote in FX\u2019s\u00a0Feud: Capote vs. The Swans\u00a0opposite Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Demi Moore, Chlo\u00eb Sevigny and Molly Ringwald. That role earned him an Emmy nomination.<\/p>\n
\n\tTownsend is an Irish-born actor of stage and screen who has worked with directors such as Mike Leigh, Stephen Frears, Mike Newell, Nick Hytner, Roger Michel, Sam Mendes, Neil Jordan and Catherine Hardwicke, among others.<\/p>\n
\n\tYang portrayed doomed missionary John Allen Chau in Last Days, the indie drama directed by Justin Lin that debuted at Sundance earlier this year. He also appeared in Zack Snyder\u2019s two-part sci-fi epic Rebel Moon alongside Sofia Boutella, Ed Skrein, and Charlie Hunnam.<\/p>\n
\n\tDillane is repped by Independent Talent Group while Hollander is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, and United Agents.<\/p>\n
\n\tTownsend is repped by Gordon & French and Yang is repped by Independent Talent Group and Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones actor Stephen Dillane, Feud: Capote vs the Swans star Tom Hollander, Irish actor Stanley Townsend,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-228187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}