Peter Dinklage is set to play The Man With The Golden Gun and Fantasy Island star Hervé Villechaize in a new film for U.S. cable channel HBO. The film will team the Game Of Thrones star with actor Jamie Dornan for My Dinner with Herve, which will be directed by British filmmaker Sacha Gervasi (Hitchcock).
Deadline reports that the film centers on an unlikely friendship that evolves over one wild night in L.A. between a struggling journalist, Danny Tate (Dornan), and actor Hervé Villechaize (Dinkage), the world’s most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
Gervasi, who will pen the screenplay for the film was also is a journalist, and conducted the last interview with Villechaize before the actor committed suicide in 1993.
“Hervé wasn’t just a pop culture icon; he was one of the most charming, cultured and dangerous people I’ve ever met,” Gervasi said in an interview. “His is the story of a unique misfit trying to find his place in the world.”
No word on when the movie will arrive, but we’ll keep you posted.
