We learned just last week that Orlando Bloom had signed on to star in Amazon’s fantasy noir series “Carnival Row,“ and now THR reports that Cara Delevingne is also on board.
The 8-episode project is set to begin filming this fall for a 2019 release.
“Carnival Row”, which no longer has Guillermo del Toro attached, is set in a neo-Victorian city. Mythical creatures fleeing their war-torn homeland have gathered in the city, and tensions are simmering between citizens and the growing immigrant population. Fans will follow the investigation of a string of unsolved murders which are eating away at whatever uneasy peace still exists.
Delevingne will play Vignette Stonemoss, a faerish refugee who flees her war-torn homeland to come to the Burgue. There, she must contend not only with rampant human prejudice against her kind, but with the secrets that have followed her to this new land.
Bloom will play Rycroft Philostrate, a police inspector investigating the murder of a faerie showgirl. Rycroft is not supposed to care about the death of another faerish refugee, but he does, and getting to the bottom of what happened to her will come at a big cost.
Bloom also produces the Legendary Television-produced show, which will be written and executive produced by showrunner Rene Echevarria. Paul McGuigan will direct and executive produce. Travis Beacham is also an executive producer, and he wrote the original feature script, “A Killing on Carnival Row,” which appeared on the very first installment of the Hollywood Blacklist in 2005.