With Marvel’s The Eternals slowly beginning to amass its core cast, now comes word on another name who may be heading to the stars to join this upcoming MCU offering.

Courtesy of The Wrap, Richard Madden is in talks to join the film. Madden, of course, is likely best known to genre fans for playing Robb Stark in Game of Thrones, not to mention for his roles in the likes of Bodyguard and Cinderella.

At this early stage, it’s believed that Madden may be up for the role of Ikaris in the picture. That character just so happens to be the leader of the titular Eternals. If Madden does indeed end up signing on for the picture, he’ll join a cast that is headlined by Angelina Jolie as Sersi and that has Train to Busan’s Ma Dong-seok and Silicon Valley’s Kumail Janjiani in unknown roles.

At this stage, details are still sketchy on The Eternals, with – much like so many impending MCU movies – more concrete information expected to be revealed over the next few months now that the landscape-changing Avengers: Endgame has hit the big screen.

Created by the iconic Jack Kirby back in 1976, the Eternals comic book title was based around a race of age-old humans created by the alien Celestials with the plan being for these humans to serve as Earth’s protectors against the nefarious Deviants. The big-screen Eternals will reportedly be based around the Sersi character who is an energy-manipulating being who is pretty much immortal.

With Chloe Zhao on directing duties, expect more on The Eternals as it continues to develop ahead of a rumoured 2020 release.