Cast Members and Directors Revealed for Syfy’s Van Helsing
The first cast members and episode directors have been announced for Syfy’s new female-led “Van Helsing” series, and a lot of them are quite familiar. Read on for the details per Deadline.
Kelly Overton (“True Blood,” “Legends”) has been cast as the lead in the 13-episode series from Nomadic Pictures. Joining her are Jonathan Scarfe (“Hell on Wheels”), Christopher Heyerdahl (“True Blood,” “Hell on Wheels”), Paul Johansson (“Mad Men”), David Cubitt (“Ray Donovan”), and Tim Guinee (“Homeland”). The showrunner is Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, The Wicker Man (2006)), who also serves as one of the show’s exec producers/writers.
Set to direct various episodes are Michael Nankin (“Hell on Wheels:), Jason Priestley (“Haven”), David Frazee (“Orphan Black”), Simon Barry (“Continuum”), and Amanda Tapping (“The Magicians”). “Van Helsing” will begin production in Vancouver, BC, on February 22nd with the premiere slated for this fall.
“We’ve been extremely blessed to get such a wonderfully talented and diverse cast for ‘Van Helsing,’” said LaBute.
Added Chad Oakes, Co-Chairman of Nomadic Pictures, “Kelly will be an amazing Vanessa, and our lead cast is nothing short of outstanding.”
The hourlong drama revolves around Vanessa Helsing (Overton; pictured below), a descendant of the Van Helsing lineage of warriors who now must lead mankind against a world controlled by vampires in the post-Rising landscape.
Scarfe plays Axel, a career Marine with unwavering devotion and loyalty to both duty and his wards, despite years of isolation and endless vampire attacks. Heyerdahl plays Sam, a survivor of the vampire Rising, who relies on his strength and observational skills to stay alive. Johansson plays Dimitri, a vampire turned before the Rising; he is now the patient and calculating leader of the vampires. Cubitt plays John, another survivor of the vampire Rising, whose actions are fueled by anger, prejudice, suspicion, and fear. Guinee plays Ted, a vampire foot soldier who does battle with Vanessa and conceals a tragic past.
Along with LaBute, other executive producers include Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev from Nomadic Pictures, Simon Barry, Evan Tyler, Dave Brown, and Zadoc Angell as well as Daniel March (Dynamic Television). Nomadic Pictures will distribute the series within Canada, and Fallout Asylum and Dynamic Television will distribute the series (initial window) in the United States. Dynamic Television is also on board as international distributor. SuperChannel and SuperEcran (Quebec) will air the series in Canada.
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