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Doug Jones is Starring In FX’s “What We Do In the Shadows” Pilot!
The “What We Do in the Shadows” pilot has added four more to its cast, Variety reports, including Doug Jones.
Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird), Jake McDorman (Lady Bird), and Mark Proksch (“The Office”, “Better Call Saul”) have also joined the FX half-hour comedy pilot. The details of their roles are being kept under wraps, but all four will potentially recur on the show should it get ordered to series.
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Jones currently stars as Saru in the CBS All Access series “Star Trek: Discovery” and plays the amphibian man in the Oscar-nominated film The Shape of Water. His past roles include Hellboy and its sequel, Pan’s Labyrynth, and playing The Ancient in the FX series “The Strain.”
The four join previously announced stars Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, and Harvey Guillen.
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi–the stars, writers, and directors of the 2014 film on which the project is based–will serve as executive producers, with Clement serving as writer and Waititi serving as director.
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is reteaming with Starz on a TV series adaptation of supernatural crime graphic novel Bone Parish, Deadline reports.
Diane Ademu-John (Dune: Prophecy) and Declan de Barra (The Witcher: Blood Origin) will co-showrun the project and executive produce.
The show’s logline reads: “In the dark underworld of New Orleans, the Winters family builds an empire around a powerful new drug—crafted from the ashes of the dead—that grants users vivid, haunting visions of the past. But as demand surges, rival factions, deadly secrets, and supernatural forces close in, pulling them deeper into a violent and inescapable nightmare of crime, horror, and family legacy.”
The graphic novel by writer Cullen Bunn (The Empty Man) and artist Jonas Scharf was published by BOOM! Studios; the publisher’s Stephen Christy and Mette Norkjaer will executive produce.
“I’ve always been drawn to stories that break the mold, and Bone Parish does exactly that. It takes crime, family, and power, and mixes it with something dark and supernatural, in a way that feels fresh. Exploring what happens when the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead, this story has incredible depth, and we’re building a series that’s going to keep audiences locked in from the first episode,” Jackson said in a statement.
“We love going on new journeys with Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson, and this one is unlike anything we’ve done before: a world steeped in horror and the supernatural, but still grounded in the family and crime storytelling our audience can’t get enough of. It’s a wild, bold swing, and exactly the kind of risk we want to be taking,” said Kathryn Busby, President, Original Programming at Starz.
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