'Game of Thrones' star Michiel Huisman joins Lily James in 'Guernsey'

Game of Thrones star Michiel Huisman will star opposite actress Lily James in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, based on the novel of the same name by Annie Barros and Mary Ann Shaffer.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell will helm the project from a script by Don Roos and Tom Bezucha, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film, set in the aftermath of World War II, follows a journalist, who forms a bond with the eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club formed on Guernsey Island.

Paula Mazur, Mitchell Kaplan, Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin will produce the film.

Huisman most recently appeared in horror hit The Invitation, The Age of Adaline opposite Blake Lively and Wild with Reese Witherspoon.

On TV, he played Daario Naharis on HBO's hit Game of Thrones and also appeared on Orphan Black and Nashville.