Marcia Gay Harden Joins Sophie Turner & Kit Harington In Gothic Horror Film ‘The Dreadful’

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden (The Morning Show) is set to star opposite Game of Thrones‘ Sophie Turner and Kit Harington in The Dreadful, a gothic horror film on which we were first to report, which is now in production in England.

Set against the backdrop of the War of the Roses, The Dreadful follows Anne (Turner) and her sinister mother-in-law Morwen (Harden), who live a solitary, harsh life on the outskirts of society. But when a man (Harington) from their past returns, he sets off a sequence of horrifying events that become a turning point for Anne.

Launching sales at EFM earlier this year, through UTA Independent Film Group and Film Bridge International, the film’s cast will also include Laurence O’Fuarain (The Gentlemen) and Jonathan Howard (Godzilla: King of the Monsters). Natasha Kermani (Lucky, V/H/S/85) is directing from her own script.

In addition to Turner, producers include Redwire Pictures/Tunnel’s Luke Daniels, as well as Storyboard Media’s Patrick Muldoon and Patrick Hibler, and Lucas Jarach. Greg Lauritano also produces under his Black Magic banner. Film Bridge International is repping foreign sales, with UTA Independent Film Group handling domestic.

Receiving her fourth Emmy nomination this year for her role as Maggie Brener in the latest season of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show, Harden also recently headlined CBS’s legal dramedy So Help Me Todd. Additionally, she earned a Critics’ Choice Award nomination for Netflix’s Uncoupled and co-starred in the Michael Keaton-helmed thriller, Knox Goes Away, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. 

A segment director on anthology film V/H/S/85, which hit Shudder last fall, Kermani also previously helmed SXSW horror drama Lucky, sci-fi drama Imitation Girl, and the thriller Shattered.

Harden is represented by Independent Artist Group, Framework Entertainment, and Schreck Rose Dapello; O’Fuarain by Lorraine Brennan Management, United Agents, Luber Roklin, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; and Howard by Innovate Talent Management and Strand Entertainment.