Having spent years playing a fang club member on TV's The Vampire Diaries, you might expect Ian Somerhalder to be on the look out for something that doesn't include creatures of the night. You'd be wrong! He's now attached to star in new drama V-Wars.
The new show, which has been handed a 10-episode first season by Netflix, is adapted from Jonathan Mayberry's IDW comic book. Somerhalder will star as Dr. Luther Swann, who enters a world of untold horror when a mysterious disease transforms his best friend, Michael Fayne, into a murderous predator who feeds on other humans. As the disease spreads and more people are transformed, society fractures into opposing camps pitting normal people against the growing number of these "vampires." Swann races against time to understand what’s happening, while Fayne rises to become the powerful underground leader of the vampires.
William Laurin and Glenn Davis are on show-running duties, while Brad Turner is directing the first episode and will also work as an executive producer. There has been no announcement as to when it'll launch on the streaming service, but we'd imagine it'll be up next year.
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