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Prometheus and Alien: Covenant actor Guy Pearce has signed on the star in Netflix’s supernatural series “The Innocents”. The newly renamed series will also star Percelle Ascott (Wizards vs. Aliens) and Sorcha Groundsell (Clique), THR reports. The eight-episode British series was both created and written by Hania Elkington (The North London Book of the Dead) and Simon Duric (Black Mirror). “The Innocents”, “will explore what happens when teenagers Harry (Ascott) and June (Groundsell) run away from their repressive family lives to be together. They’re quickly thrown into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery that derails their innocent dream: Secrets kept from them by their parents test their love to the breaking point, and the extraordinary gift they possess unleashes powerful forces intent on dividing them forever. Pearce will play a character named Halvorson.” New Pictures produced the series. Farren Blackburn (Doctor Who) will direct along with Jamie Donaghue, as well as executive produce with New Pictures founders Charlie Pattinson, Elaine Pyke
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Three new cast members for Netflix’s series re-imagining of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ have been announced. Henry Thomas and Elizabeth Reaser are reuniting with director Mike Flanagan, who they worked with on the set of Ouija: Origin of Evil, and have been cast alongside Kate Siegel, the actress who played the lead in Flanagan’s invasion thriller Hush. The three join the cast that already includes Carla Gugino and Michel Huisman. Directed by Flanagan, the 10-episode series is from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV and Paramount TV. The novel has already been adapted for film twice , once in 1963 and again in 1999. Both films were titled The Haunting. In the novel “four seekers arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill
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Prometheus and Alien: Covenant actor Guy Pearce has signed on the star in Netflix’s supernatural series “The Innocents”. The newly renamed series will also star Percelle Ascott (Wizards vs. Aliens) and Sorcha Groundsell (Clique), THR reports. The eight-episode British series was both created and written by Hania Elkington (The North London Book of the Dead) and Simon Duric (Black Mirror). “The Innocents”, “will explore what happens when teenagers Harry (Ascott) and June (Groundsell) run away from their repressive family lives to be together. They’re quickly thrown into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery that derails their innocent dream: Secrets kept from them by their parents test their love to the breaking point, and the extraordinary gift they possess unleashes powerful forces intent on dividing them forever. Pearce will play a character named Halvorson.” New Pictures produced the series. Farren Blackburn (Doctor Who) will direct along with Jamie Donaghue, as well as executive produce with New Pictures founders Charlie Pattinson, Elaine Pyke
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Three new cast members for Netflix’s series re-imagining of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ have been announced. Henry Thomas and Elizabeth Reaser are reuniting with director Mike Flanagan, who they worked with on the set of Ouija: Origin of Evil, and have been cast alongside Kate Siegel, the actress who played the lead in Flanagan’s invasion thriller Hush. The three join the cast that already includes Carla Gugino and Michel Huisman. Directed by Flanagan, the 10-episode series is from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV and Paramount TV. The novel has already been adapted for film twice , once in 1963 and again in 1999. Both films were titled The Haunting. In the novel “four seekers arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill
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