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‘Game of Thrones’ and Dustin Hoffman drama headed to HBO

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HBO continues to develop aggressively, with a new pilot starring Dustin Hoffman and a series pickup based on a line of bestselling fantasy novels.

The pay cable outlet announced Tuesday that it had committed to a pilot plus nine episodes of ‘Game of Thrones,’ adapted from the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ fantasy epic by screenwriter and novelist George R.R. Martin. The story concerns a violent civil war that wracks a fictional land called Westeros. The cast includes Peter Dinklage and Sean Bean.

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In the drama ‘Luck,’ which is being developed by Michael Mann (‘Heat’) and David Milch (‘Deadwood’), Hoffman will play an ex-con who teams with his chauffeur (Dennis Farina) in a complex scheme at a horse track.

The Oscar-winning Hoffman, 72, hasn’t done series television since the mid-1960s, when he appeared in guest roles in such shows as ‘Naked City’ and ‘The Defenders.’

— Scott Collins

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