With the success of The Walking Dead, True Blood, and American Horror Story, NBC is really pushing for a successful genre series. They already tried with Mockingbird Lane and a Hannibal series is on the way, but it's not stopping there. A new Dracula TV series is in the works and we now know who will be playing the lead female role.
According to Deadline, Jessica De Gouw (Arrow) is playing Mina, although her character is a bit different than you'll remember from the Bram Stoker novel. In this version Mina Murray is a "striking medical student who is engaged to Jonathan Harker but upon meeting Grayson both are instantly mesmerized by the other’s uncanny resemblance to someone from their past."
As previously reported, Carnivale's Dan Knauf has been hired as the showrunner and head writer for the series. Dracula has already been given a 10-episode straight-to-series order for its first season, with Jonathan Rhys Meyers playing Count Dracula:
"It centers on Dracula (Meyers), who arrives in London posing as American entrepreneur Allen Grayson, who maintains that he wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. In reality, he hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier, but he falls hopelessly in love with a woman who seems to be a reincarnation of his dead wife."
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