WATCH: Game of Thrones’ Littlefinger creates whole planets in this scifi short film

Watch Game of Thrones star Aidan Gillen (who plays the cunning Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in the hit HBO series) as he creates whole planets in this short science fiction short film, simply entitled, "Ambition."

The European Space Agency (ESA) commissioned Academy Award-wining director Tomek Baginski to create the video as a promotion of its ongoing Rosetta space mission, a 10-year program that is said to be the most ambitious project of its kind ever attempted.

"Ambition" was shot on location in Iceland and screened Oct. 24 in the British Film Institute's celebration of Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder.



Tech site The Verge said Gillen is known for playing ambitious men, where on "Game of Thrones" he plays the conniving Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish.

He has also played politician Tommy Carcetti on "The Wire."

In the film, he and actress Aisling Franciosi "look back on one of mankind's major missions into space, all while they create planetoids and comets with only their minds."

"The short actually celebrates the Rosetta spacecraft, which this August managed to successfully reach and orbit a comet for the first time—truly the fruit of some outsized ambition. And the work isn't over yet; next month, the Rosetta craft will release a lander onto the comet's surface and run tests for water," The Verge added.

As a bonus, below is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Ambition:"