A TV collection based mostly on Dracula’s enemy Dr. Abraham Van Helsing is in improvement at CBS, dropping Van Helsing into modern-day New York
CBS has come out the winner in a bidding battle to grow to be the house to a brand new TV collection based mostly on Dracula’s legendary foe Dr. Abraham Van Helsing… and no, this challenge doesn’t (regardless of the picture above) have something to do with the 2004 Hugh Jackman film. Or the Van Helsing present that ran on Syfy for 5 seasons, wrapping up in 2021. Or any earlier model of Van Helsing, a personality who has been performed by the likes of Edward Van Sloan, Peter Cushing, Anthony Hopkins, Mel Brooks, Rutger Hauer, and plenty of others over the a long time. This can be a contemporary tackle the character that’s coming our manner from Elementary creator Rob Doherty, Carl Beverly, Sarah Timberman and Lionsgate Tv.
Deadline studies that this modern model of monster hunter Dr. Abraham Van Helsing makes use of his uniquely inquisitive thoughts working alongside his ex, relentless FBI particular agent Mina Harker, to resolve New York Metropolis’s most harrowing circumstances. So at this level it appears like your typical CBS procedural present, the lead characters simply occur to be Van Helsing and Mina Harker. Right here’s hoping New York Metropolis’s most harrowing circumstances will trigger them to cross paths with vampires and different monsters every so often.
Van Helsing is being written by creator Jonathan Lee, whose books embrace The Nice Mistake and Excessive Dive – and he’s at the moment working with Eric Roth to script an adaptation of the latter. Lee can be behind the upcoming drama collection Lockerbie, from Netflix and the BBC, and is working with Reservation Canine’ Sterlin Harjo to create a restricted collection a couple of Las Vegas heist for FX. So he’s fairly busy for the time being.
Deadline notes that this isn’t the one Van Helsing collection in improvement, as EastSiders creator Package Williamson is creating a collection based mostly on Jason Henderson’s trilogy of Alex Van Helsing novels, which middle on a 14-year-old descendent of Abraham Van Helsing. That challenge is about up at AGC Tv.
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