{"id":834105,"date":"2026-07-30T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834105\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:45:09","slug":"george-kittle-to-make-acting-debut-in-dinosaurs-of-the-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834105\/","title":{"rendered":"George Kittle To Make Acting Debut In ‘Dinosaurs Of The Wild West’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: San Francisco 49ers tight end and seven-time Pro Bowler George Kittle<\/a> is attached to make his acting debut in Dinosaurs of the Wild West<\/a>, an eight-part frontier series from filmmaker Luke Sparke, creator of movie Primitive War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tKittle is due to play \u201can original character in the new frontier, complete with his own dinosaur\u201d, marking the NFL star\u2019s first on-screen acting role. Joining Kittle in the series are Jesse Kove (Cobra Kai) in a villainous role, Martin Kove (Cobra Kai), and Rachel Pizzolatto (MythBusters Jr) as \u2018The Heiress\u2019.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe project, which is currently funding on Kickstarter, is being pitched as \u201cHouse Of The Dragon meets Tombstone\u201c. Below is a concept trailer. Set in an alternate 1879 where humans and dinosaurs built civilisation together, it will see \u201cmassive Brontosaurs haul entire towns across the plains; Raptors ridden into battle; and Pterosaurs rule the skies. The series follows pioneers, outlaws and adventurers navigating a dangerous land where every journey, every town and every war depend on the giant creatures that shaped civilisation itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe three principal hero roles remain in active casting along with other key roles. Auditions are currently underway.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSince the trailer dropped, we\u2019ve had an incredible response from the acting community. Performers
from all over the world are reaching out because they want to be part of this crazy-ambitious idea,\u201d said
Australian writer-director Luke Sparke, whose 2025 Vietnam War \u2014 dinosaur mashup Primitive War starred Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, Nick Wechsler and Jeremy Piven. <\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking of Kittle\u2019s and the other cast attachments, he added: \u201cGeorge is someone who discovered Primitive War on his own and talked about it publicly and that\u2019s what brought us together. His passion for this kind of storytelling is completely authentic, and that energy is exactly what the frontier needs. Having him, the Koves and Rachael together so far is the kind of ensemble that gets built around a story worth telling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCommenting of the film\u2019s fan-funded model, Sparke added: \u201cWe\u2019re past the point of asking permission. The audience has already shown interest in extraordinary numbers. This is a new way of making ambitious content, with creators going directly to the fans who want it by building their own audience. If enough people pre-order it, we make it. It\u2019s that simple. Now it\u2019s just educating this new system and turning those millions of views into pre-orders.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA sequel to Primitive War is also being developed by Sparke, whose other features as director include Occupation: Rainfall and Bring Him To Me. As previously reported out of Australia, the filmmaker is due in a Brisbane court later this year over alleged conduct connected to a historical bankruptcy.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: San Francisco 49ers tight end and seven-time Pro Bowler George Kittle is attached to make his acting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,405992,134,19977,344,64280],"class_list":["post-834105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dinosaurs-of-the-wild-west","tag-entertainment","tag-george-kittle","tag-movies","tag-primitive-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834105","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=834105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}