[TV] Meet “Gothica’s” Dorian Grey and Frankenstein
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.
3 Comments
it’s on ABC. i give it 5 episodes before it’s cancelled but it sounds interesting.
ABC typically fails with its genre fare. They seem to do much better with things like (the admittedly wonderful) MODERN FAMILY. Plus, the title GOTHICA being a slight variation on (the Halle Barre starring) GOTHIKA scared me before I read the context.
So there is this, then there are the new “Dracula”- series coming, “The Following”, “The Walking Dead”,”American Horror Story” etc. and lots of fairy tale – based series running on TV. Good times for horror fans, but you gotta look for the cream of the crop.
But the self-cannibalism/overkill will be inevitable.