Lena Headey is off the throne and stepping behind the camera. The four-time Emmy-nominated actress, best known for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister in “Game of Thrones,” is set to make her feature directorial debut with “Violet.” Deadline broke the news.
A psychological thriller based on SJI Holliday’s 2019 novel, “Violet” tells the story of “two solo female travelers who immediately hit it off and decide to team up for the next leg of their adventure. As the journey continues things start to unravel – because neither of the women is who they claim to be,” the source teases. “Producers describe it to us as having elements of ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ and ‘Single White Female,’ while publishers have also compared it to ‘Killing Eve.'”
The project hails from Goldfinch Entertainment.
Headey described the book as “a compulsive page turner” that stayed with her “long after” she finished it. She emphasized, “It’s exciting that my first feature as a director will be such an intense female thriller. It’s a wild ride to the finish with vast cinematic scope, centering around two very complex women who will completely unravel over the course of the film. I can’t wait to get rolling.”
“Gunpowder Milkshake,” “Fighting with My Family,” and “300” are among Headey’s on-screen credits. She wrote and directed the BAFTA-nominated short “The Trap,” the story of a reclusive woman who falls in love.
Headey’s upcoming slate includes “The White House Plumbers,” an upcoming five-part HBO limited series that will tell the “true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, accidentally toppled the presidency they were trying to protect,” per its official synopsis.
