Like other cast members who have capitalized on the success of the HBO series Game of Thrones, actor Kit Harington (better known as Jon Snow to Thrones fans), Kit Harington has wielded his new-found fame as handily as he does a sword to land another big role.

He’ll be playing King Arthur in writer/director David Dobkin’s forthcoming Arthur and Lancelot film, beating out a host of other actors (including Game of Thrones co-star Richard Madden, who plays Robb Stark) for the role.

The 24 year-old Harington joins Joel Kinnaman (from AMC’s The Killing) who was already been cast as Lancelot. The project is expected to begin shooting sometime in early 2012 and will feature quite a different take on the classic tale according to Dobkin in a recent interview:

“I pulled the legend apart. I only kept a few things. I kept certain characters, I recreated the entire launch of the legend and why it starts the way that it starts, I don’t want to give away too much but it’s always had a flaw. I pulled the flaws out, I reinvented the characters as grounded characters. I took a much more realistic and grounded approach towards everybody, you know why would this character be this way and why would this character be that way? You know Arthur’s superpower is compassion and vision. I will tell you this, the whole thing is wrapped around the birth of democracy as a concept and it’s positing Arthur as the first man to say all men are created equal.”

While that approach may not appeal to Arthurian purists, Thrones fans will likely enjoy seeing another of their favorite actors get some time on the big screen.

Like many other actors in Game of Thrones, Harington was largely unknown before landing the role of Jon Snow in the series; his only other actiing credit in IMDb is playing the role of Vincent Carter in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, which is listed as being in post-production.

Filming in Iceland is gearing up for the Season 2 action of the HBO series Game of Thrones that occurs beyond the Wall, with news trickling out of vaious casyting choices for both extras as well as central characters.

The latest news via George R.R. Martin’s Not a Blog is that wildling raider Rattleshirt has been cast, with Edward Dogliani taking that honor of playing the Lord of Bones.

Like much of the cast of Game of Thrones, Dogliani is a bit of an unknown, with only a few very small roles in UK productions over the last 4-5 years.

That hasn’t proven to mean much of anything so far in the series, as some of the best acting in Season 1 came from unexpected sources.

And, to be fair, it’s not as if Rattleshirt plays that central a role in the action anyway, with the ability to look menacing while wearing a suit of bones likely ranking higher on the list of prerequisites when casting the role instead of pure thespian ability.

Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage (who recently won an Emmy for his portrayal of Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series) is starring in a different sort of role on the big screen in the upcoming film Pete Smalls is Dead.

Premiering in Los Angeles on Nov. 11 and available on video on demand, Pete Smalls is Dead tracks the story of Hollywood expat named KC (played by Dinklage) who has his beloved canine companion kidnapped by a loan shark.

Lured back by the supposed funeral of a friend and the promise of $10,000 — exactly what he owes to get his dog back — with plenty of bizarre twists and turns along the way as the story unfolds.

Dinklage isn’t the only star power in the film, with the rest of the cast including Tim Roth, Rosie Perez, Steve Buscemi, Dinklage’s Game of Thrones co-star Lena Headey.

Thrones fans will have to wait until early 2012 to see Dinklage in action again as the Imp, which is when Season 2 of HBO’s series kicks off again.

Despite the fact that, umm, he had his head cut off during Season 1 of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”, actor Sean Bean said in a recent interview that he’d love to return to the series:

“Yeah, I loved it,” he told Access Hollywood at the 2011 Scream Awards over the weekend in Los Angeles. “It was a fantastic time for me and it was a really ambitious project by HBO, and all the guys involved — the producers, the directors, the actors. It was a wonderful experience, and hopefully… I think I am in flashbacks in the books.”

Bean’s hopes may be dashed, however, as producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have gone in record in the past saying that the series won’t use flashbacks at all.

Bean can console himself with plenty of other work, including co-starring with Ashley Judd in an upcoming ABC series, as well as working on a thriller called “Missing” and playing Julia Roberts’ husband – the King — in the upcoming untitled “Snow White” project.

Emilia Clarke is the latest cast member of HBO’s hit “Game of Thrones” series to parlay its success into a role on the big screen, landing the female lead in action thriller “Overdrive”.

Game of Thrones fans know her better as Daenrys Targaryen, featured prominently in the Season 1 finale of the show that saw her dragon eggs hatch into live baby dragons.

With just a TV movie and a guest spot on a single episode of a UK TV series to her credit previously in her acting career, Clarke won the equivalent of the acting lotto when she was chosen to replace actress Tamzin Merchant after the pilot for “Game of Thrones” had already been filmed.

“Game of Thrones” was nominated for 13 Emmys and is currently filming Season 2, which is scheduled to air in the spring of 2012.