David Bradley Joins Guillermo del Toro's 'The Strain'

Patty O Furniture

This may not be Who related, but because the two stars were featured within the last week i thought i'd mention it here when i saw this info on David Bradley as someone has noticed his work & not only joins the show but replaces John Hurt after vacating it!

Just days after FX ordered ‘The Strain’ for 13 episodes, the horror vampire series has secured one of its more important roles. With John Hurt vacating, the Guillermo del Toro-led thriller was in need of casting the mysterious and perhaps brilliant Professor Abraham Setrakian, a key player in a massive viral outbreak.

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Yeah, a little OT, but am curious about the adaptation all the same. I read the books and the first one had a great sense of dread and atmosphere. It read like a medical procedural, with vampirism a particularly grotesque, horrible disease; you felt the vampires were deliberately made to be the utter antithesis of the Twilight kind. That said, the 2nd and 3rd books were friggin' woeful, and a classic case of the journey being more interesting than the destination (the third novel is particularly bad)

Patty O Furniture

Yeah, maybe this is better in the tv section, but do we need another vampire show, as there's another one comin in Jan, suppose they all want a bite of the cherry, excuse the pun :P
Looks like John Hurt had better sense to leave it then.