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The Big Picture
- CBS is developing a new procedural series featuring Van Helsing solving crimes in present-day New York City.
- The show will include a modern twist on the character with Van Helsing teaming up with his ex-lover, FBI agent Mina Harker.
- The series will be produced by the creators of
Elementary
and will bring a fresh take on the classic monster hunter character.
Literature’s most famous monster hunter is coming back to TV. A new procedural series centered around a contemporary take on Dracula‘s Abraham Van Helsing is coming to CBS. Deadline reports that Van Helsing is currently in development at the network.
The new series will be set in the present day, and will feature supernatural avenger Van Helsing working alongside his ex-lover, FBI special agent Mina Harker (another reference to Bram Stoker‘s 1897 novel), to solve New York City’s most horrifying crimes. The series, which landed at CBS after acompetitive aucton, is the brainchild of British screenwriter and novelist Jonathan Lee. Lee is currently working on Netflix’s Lockerbie series, which will dramatize the events of the deadly 1988 airline bombing; Colin Firth is set to star as the father of one of the bombing’s victims. Van Helsing will come with a serious procedural pedigree; Rob Doherty, who created Elementary, another CBS series that recontextualized a classic character of Victorian-era literature as a modern-day crime-solver, will executive produce the series. Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman are also attached to executive produce.
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