The cast for DC's Doom Patrol, the quirksome comicbook adaptation that will be among those new series hosted on the company's streaming service DC Universe, is really starting to come together. And now the show has a villain, with Alan Tudyk on to play Mr. Nobody.
In the comics, originally created back in the 1960s Arnold Drake, Bob Haney and Bruno Premian, Mr. Nobody is also known as Eric Morden, who is exposed to unknown experiments by Nazis in hiding in post-war Paraguay. He emerges as a living shadow able to drain the sanity of others as an enigmatic, and totally insane bad guy.
He'll be one of the major sources of trouble for the titular Patrol, a group of powered outcasts under the leadership of the mysterious Dr. Niles Caulder and Cyborg (Jovian Wade). Together Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Negative Man, Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby) and Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero) explore the more unusual corners of the DC universe. Jeremy Carver is overseeing the writing, with DC TV supremo Greg Berlanti as one of the producers. It'll hit the service next year.
Tudyk has been more known for his voice talents of late, providing work for various Disney animated movies (he'll be heard in Ralph Breaks The Internet, due out on 30 November), though he was seen, under some prosthetics, in Deadpool 2.
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