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[TV] “The Strain” Recasting Son For Emotional Role
Deadline is reporting that FX thriller drama “The Strain” is recasting the role of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather’s (Corey Stoll) son heading into Season 2.
Max Charles, just seen in American Sniper opposite Bradley Cooper, has been cast in the part as a regular. He replaces Ben Hyland, who played Zach Goodweather in Season 1.
“We recast this part due to some specific story needs we have downstream,” said “The Strain” executive producer/showrunner Carlton Cuse. “We are sad to see Ben go. He is a very talented actor and a wonderful person. We will all miss him and thank him for his great work.”
The site claims the second season of “The Strain” features a deeply emotional storyline involving Zach’s character, and the producers looked for a young actor with a range that can accommodate that.
Hopefully they’re also addressing the script issues that plagued the final episodes. What crap.
Zach Cregger is no stranger to violent movies, with his first two at-bats in the horror genre yielding the films Barbarian and Weapons. But even those movies can’t compete with the level of violence on display in his next movie Resident Evil, he teases in a new chat.
Zach Cregger tells Empire Magazine that Resident Evil is “definitely the most violent thing I’ve done.” He teases, “You gotta go grotesque! I wanted to go all the way.”
“So it’s gnarly. It’s brutal,” Cregger continues. “A very bloody affair.”
He also tells Empire, “Fleshing out what [the Umbrella Corporation is] up to and how the T-virus works, that’s not what this movie is. This movie is about one dude’s journey on foot, fighting monsters. I don’t give a fuck about checking boxes. All I cared about was just telling a fun story. We step on the gas at about eight minutes in and never take our foot off the floor.”
Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony.
The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise” from the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons).
Austin Abrams (Weapons) stars as Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in a non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”), and Johnno Wilson (“Twisted Metal”) round out the cast.
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