Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage to star in Rumpelstiltskin adaptation

Peter Dinklage of Game of Thrones will be starring in the Rumpelstiltskin movie. According to sources, Sony is in development on Rumpelstiltskin, the movie.
Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage of Game of Thrones will be starring in the Rumpelstiltskin movie. According to sources, Sony is in development on Rumpelstiltskin, the movie.

Patrick Ness has been brought on to pen the script with Karen Rosenfelt, Circle of Confusion's Matt Smith and David Alpert, David Ginsberg, and Josh Weinstock also producing. Sources say the film is still in deep development and would not be Dinklage's next project after Game of Thrones ends. 

Plot details are being kept under wraps aside from the film focusing on the mythical character that Dinklage would play. The character first appeared in a Brothers Grimm tale and follows a miller who lies to the king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold.

The king calls for the girl, shuts her in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he will cut off her head. When she has given up all hope, an imp-like creature, also known as Rumpelstiltskin, appears in the room and spins the straw into gold in return for her necklace.

Though the return is good in the short term, Rumpelstiltskin's motives lie in the long term and end up costing the girl more than she could have bargained for. There have been many variations of the story over time and, most recently, the character has played a major role in the long-running series Once Upon a Time with Robert Carlyle playing the character.

Dinklage recently hit a new milestone by recording his seventh Emmy nomination for Game of Thrones, the most nominations for any actor for playing the same character. 

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