Award-winning actor Peter Dinklage is of course most well-known for being the funniest Lannister in all of Westeros during his near decade-long tenure on HBO’s Game of Thrones, but many of his fans probably didn’t expect him to next bring his innate comedic talents to an epic brotherly team-up with none other than Josh Brolin. In 2019 it was announced that the two would be co-starring in a new comedy film called Brothers, with the two of them playing siblings. While there’s no trailer or release date for the film just yet, Dinklage took part in an exclusive interview with Collider to talk about the experience, as well as exactly how he and Brolin came together for such a silly concept.
Brothers is set as an R-rated comedy film helmed by Max Barbakow, who previously worked on the 2020 fantasy comedy Palm Springs that starred SNL alum Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, and J.K. Simmons. The script was co-written by Macon Blair, who most recently worked on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, and Etan Cohen who is best known for his gut-busting work on comedies like Tropic Thunder (2008), Men in Black 3 (2012), and Get Hard (2013). Producers include both lead actors Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) and Josh Brolin (Dune: Part One), along with David Ginsberg and Andrew Lazar. Other A-list stars who joined the project include Glenn Close (Tehran), Brendan Fraser (The Whale), William Tokarsky (Jacob’s Ladder), and Taylour Paige (Hit the Floor).
Dinklage Jokes About How Brothers Came to Be
Despite being in post-production, the specific premise of Brothers is still being kept under wraps, right down to the logline. Peter Dinklage expanded more on this in the interview, noting that so many movies nowadays are deliberately given away before they even premiere in theaters, and that he’s glad to keep up the mystery for this new project. He also revealed the hilarious moment of Brolin calling him one day and pitching the idea to him.
“I like keeping everything under wraps because it’s just fun. Nobody knew what a C-3PO was when I was a kid until you saw him in the theaters, and it’s like, ‘Whoa!’ Now, you know, everybody knows so much about a movie before we see it – not that this movie is ‘Star Wars.’ Me and Josh Brolin play brothers, and the origin of this, of how we made this movie, is we pitched it to studios because a friend of his said, ‘You and Dinklage both have really big heads, you guys should play brothers.’ And he called me up, and he was like, ‘My friend said this, you wanna play?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, movies have been made for less ideas than that, this is perfect,’ and I was a huge fan of Josh’s work.”
There is currently no release date set for Brothers yet, but with production winding down more details should come soon. Dinklage can soon be seen as main villain Scourge in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, as Casca Highbottom in The Hunger Games prequel film Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, as well as western drama feature The Thicket alongside Juliette Lewis (Yellowjackets). Meanwhile Josh Brolin will be returning as Gurney Halleck in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two sequel.
This story originally appeared on Movieweb
