Dinklage will play Shorty, a bounty hunter enlisted to find a woman who has been kidnapped by a violent killer. The movie, which is set at the turn of the 20th century, follows Shorty and his fellow trackers as they travel into a violent and chaotic place known as the Big Thicket.

 

"The Thicket" also stars Juliette Lewis ("Yellowjackets"), Esmé Creed-Miles ("Hanna"), Levon Hawke ("The Crowded Room"), Leslie Grace ("In The Heights"), Gbenga Akinnagbe ("The Old Man"), Macon Blair ("I Care A Lot"), Ned Dennehy ("Peaky Blinders"), Andrew Schulz ("Infamous") and Arliss Howard ("Mank").

 

Back in 2019, Hetfield had a part in the Netflix thriller "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile". That film followed the relationship between notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, played by Zac Efron, and his longtime girlfriend, played by Lily Collins, who at the time had no knowledge of the crimes. Hetfield played officer Bob Hayward, a no-nonsense Utah highway patrol veteran who was the first law enforcement officer to arrest Bundy in 1975 after pulling the killer over and discovering burglary tools in his car but wisely suspecting much worse. While Hetfield had played himself in other films and television productions, this was his first dramatic role taking on a different character.