John Hurt has joined the cast for the pilot of The Strain, a potential FX Networks series adapted from the trilogy of vampire novels by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. (More information about the first book in the trilogy, below.)
Hurt will play Abraham Setrakian, a holocaust survivor who runs a pawn shop in Spanish Harlem. He teams up with the CDC Canary Project team when Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather (played by Corey Stoll) realizes that the viral outbreak isn't a new bioterror weapon, but something older … and beyond science … and vampiric.
Del Toro will direct the pilot from an adapted screenplay co-written with Chuck Hogan.
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The Strain
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
The Strain Trilogy (1st in series)
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.
In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing …
So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city — a city that includes his wife and son — before it is too late.
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