Showbiz411‘s Roger Friedman is reporting that “Game of Thrones” star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is taking on a key role in the big screen adaptation of journalist Kim Barker’s Taliban Shuffle, opposite Tina Fey, Martin Freeman and Margot Robbie.
Coster-Waldau will be taking on the male lead role in the dark comedy directed by Glen Ficarra and John Requa (Bad Santa, Crazy Stupid Love), which is based on Barker’s adventures as a war journalist traveling between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Besides filming the upcoming season of “Game of Thrones,” Coster-Waldau finished filming Alex Proya’s Gods of Egypt in which he plays Horus.
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