Iwan Rheon, Jack Wolfe, Asha Banks Join Roland Emmerich’s ‘The Magic Flute’ (Exclusive)

Game of Thrones” star Iwan Rheon, Jack Wolfe (“The Witcher”), Asha Banks and Amir Wilson (“His Dark Materials”) have joined Roland Emmerich’s production of “The Magic Flute,” a modern retelling of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s popular opera.The pic is set to begin principal photography on Feb.

8 at Bavaria Studios in Munich.Starring alongside the young British actors will be some of the world’s most renowned opera stars, among them French soprano Sabine Devieilhe, Mexican-French tenor Rolando Villazón and U.S.

bass Morris Robinson.Directed by Florian Sigl, “The Magic Flute” is set in present-day Europe and follows 17-year-old singer Tim Walker as he travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school.

There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”Wolfe, who began his career at London’s National Theatre and has appeared

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