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“Riverdale” Creator’s ‘Dracula’-Inspired Series “The Brides” Gets a Pilot Order from ABC
A few years back, “Riverdale” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was working on a series centered on the Brides of Dracula for NBC, and we had learned earlier this year that a new iteration of that project was being shopped to the premium/streaming marketplace. Today, THR lets us know that ABC has ordered up a pilot.
This version of “The Brides” is said to “lean stronger into horror and sexuality.”
“The Brides is a sexy, contemporary reimagining of the Dracula saga as a family drama with a trio of powerful, diverse female leads.”
“With strong horror elements, The Brides is a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy—and their non-traditional family.”
Maggie Kiley (“American Horror Story”) is on board to direct the pilot, being written by Aguirre-Sacasa. “The Brides” is being produced with Berlanti Productions.
The three Brides of Dracula are characters featured in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, seductive vampires who live with Dracula. Back in 1960, Hammer made a Brides of Dracula feature film.
Despite her character, Mia, dying in season one of “Dexter: Resurrection“, Deadline reports that Krysten Ritter will return for season two.
No word at this time on who Ritter will play in the upcoming season, including whether or not this means the series may resurrect her serial killer character also known as Lady Vengeance.
It is a series that has brought characters back from the dead before, after all. And that’s if Mia died at all; even Ritter has teased not to count her character out yet.
Ritter joins the previously announced Uma Thurman, who reprises her character Charley in season two.
The new season finds Dexter Morgan caught between two killers — one notorious and the other terrorizing New York in ways no one ever anticipated — all while battling his greatest enemy yet: a mid-life crisis. Harrison continues his own pursuit of justice as father and son face their darkest chapter.
Michael C. Hall will be back as Dexter Morgan in the upcoming “Dexter: Resurrection” Season 2, starring alongside Uma Thurman, Jack Alcott, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Kadia Sarif, Dominic Fumusa, Desmond Harrington, and James Remar.
They’ll be joined by series newcomers Dan Stevens as The Five Borough Killer, Bokeem Woodbine as NYPD Homicide Captain Mixon, Nona Parker Johnson as Harrison Morgan’s new love interest Fiona Mixon, and Brian Cox as The New York Ripper.
You can stream the first season on Paramount+ now. Daniel Kurland wrote here on Bloody Disgusting last year, “Somehow, against all odds, Dexter: Resurrection is good. Really good.” He continued, “With any luck, Dexter: Resurrection’s second season will maintain this momentum and consistency, rather than going off the rails like in the past.”
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