Deadline is reporting that ABC’s gothic soap “Gothica” has cast its first lead characters.
“Poe” and Resident Evil: Extinction‘s Chris Egan, pictured left, has been cast as Dorian Grey and Tom Ellis as Victor Frankenstein.
“The is project set in the present day, which weaves together a mythology that incorporates the legends of Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein and Dorian Gray.”
ABC Studios and the Mark Gordon Co. are producing the pilot written by Matt Lopez.