Australian actor Jay Ryan has landed the Beast role opposite Kristin Kreuk’s Beauty in the CW’s pilot Beauty and the Beast, which will be “loosely” based on the 1987-90 CBS series. Ryan spent 3 years on Australia’s popular soap Neighbours, and did an arc on FOX’s Terra Nova,
which films there. Meanwhile, this new version will keep some of
romantic love storylines from the original, but of course, they’ll be
updated for modern audience; they’ll also add a procedural element not
in the old Linda Hamilton version. Kreuk plays Catherine, “a
tough-minded NYPD homicide detective haunted by witnessing her mother’s
murder nine years ago and the killers’ quick demise at the hands of a
Beast. After years of searching, Catherine finally finds the Beast,
Vincent Koslow, the survivor of a military experiment that went
disastrously wrong, and becomes the protector of his secret life as a
superhero.”
Zachary Quinto will be a main cast member when American Horror Story
returns next fall; the actor put in a memorable 4-episode story arc
last season. Like returnee Jessica Lange, he too will play a brand new
character in a story that is set at an East Coast institution. For
Quinto, whose career has expanded over the last two years, he found
working on the show exciting. While it keeps him doing TV work, it also
enables him to do other things, and not be committed to a long-term TV
series that can prevent him from doing plays and movies. He’s currently
film the Star Trek sequel, but last fall he starred in and produced the indie film Margin Call,
which not only won the Best First Feature and the Robert Altman Award
at the Independent Spirit Awards, but also received an Oscar nomination
for Best Original Screenplay. Meanwhile, it was announced that series
regular Evan Peters will be back as well, along with two recurring
actors, Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe.
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