Emilia Clarke returns to the small screen with the new Prime Video series crime drama series Criminal based on Ed Brubaker’s comic series
After impressing TV audiences with her role as Daenerys Targaryen in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke is returning to the small screen.
According to Variety, the 37-year-old actress has signed on to star in Prime Video’s new TV series Criminal.
The series is based on the Criminal comic book series launched in 2006 by iconic comic book writer Ed Brubaker and illustrator Sean Phillips.
Clarke joins a cast that already includes Charlie Hunnam, Richard Jenkins, John Hawkes, Adria Arjona, Logan Browning, Kadeem Hardison, Pat Healy, Taylor Sele, Gus Halper, Aliyah Camacho, Michael Mando, Marvin Jones III, Michael Xavier and Dominic Burgess.
Clarke plays Mallory, who is described as “a slick and daring armed robber, who is as quick with a gun as she is smart.”
After impressing TV audiences with her role as Daenerys Targaryen in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke is returning to the small screen
The series is based on the Criminal comic book series launched in 2006 by iconic comic book writer Ed Brubaker and illustrator Sean Phillips
She is part of a gang that robs criminals, along with Ricky Lawless (Halper), ‘with whom she has a passionate Bonnie-and-Clyde-style affair.’
Mallory is also described as “a woman living on the edge, breaking the law and hiding secrets that will put her and her entire crew in danger.”
The project was ordered to series in January, with Brubaker writing the pilot script based on his comics and serving as executive producers along with Phillips.
The series is described as “an interlocking universe of crime stories,” with Brubaker serving as showrunner alongside Jordan Harper (Hightown, Gotham, The Mentalist).
The original comic series debuted in October 2006 as a 10-issue series that was later released as two paperback editions.
The second part was published in 2008, followed by two miniseries in 2010 and 2011. Several specials were published in the 2010s.
Brubaker and Phillips released the original graphic novel My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies in 2018, which would eventually reveal a character set in the Criminal universe.
The success of that book led to Criminal being re-released as a monthly series starting in 2019.
She is part of a robbery gang with Ricky Lawless (Halper), ‘with whom she has a passionate Bonnie-and-Clyde-esque affair’
Mallory is also described as ‘a woman living on the edge, on the wrong side of the law, hiding secrets that will put her and her entire crew in danger’
The original comic series debuted in October 2006 as a 10-issue series that was later released as two paperback editions.
Brubaker, Phillips and Harper will serve as executive producers, along with Sarah Carbiener and Philipp Barnett.
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Captain Marvel, Mississippi Grind) have also signed on to direct the first four episodes.
Clarke is best known for her role as Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones, though she returned to the small screen last year in Marvel’s Secret Invasion.
She will also play Jean Kerr, the wife of Cold War Senator Joseph McCarthy, in the biopic McCarthy, opposite Michael Shannon in the title role.