Adrian Holmes & Jacky Lai Join Ian Somerhalder In Netflix’s ‘V-Wars’
‘The Vampire Diaries’ Ian Somerhalder will be joined by two more genre tv show veterans when his new Netflix show ‘V-Wars‘ launches, as Adrian Holmes and Jacky Lai join the cast.
‘V-Wars’, which has been given a 10-episode straight-to-series order by the streaming service, stars Somerhalder as Dr Luther Swann, who finds himself in a world of untold horror when a millennia-old bacteria transforms his best friend, Michael Fayne (Holmes), into a murderous predator who feeds on other humans. The disease starts to spread transforming more people and fracturing society into opposing camps. On one side the “normal” humans, on the other, a growing number of “vampires”. Swann must race against time to understand what is happening while Fayne rises to become the powerful underground leader of his new brethren.
Lai joins the cast as Kaylee Vo, a struggling young online journalist who will do or say almost anything to advance her career. She’s described as “fierce, funny, and hustling fringe player”, but when she breaks the biggest story imaginable, she soon finds herself a key part of that story with a growing list of deadly enemies.
If you’re trying to place where you’ve seen Adrian Holmes before, he played Police Captain Frank Pike in Seasons 1 & 2 of ‘Arrow’, and Agent Warren in ‘Continuum’. He also starred in ’19-2′ and has popped up in episodes of ‘Supernatural’, ‘Stargate: SG1’ and ‘Smallville’. Jacky Lai is probably best known for her role as Riley in short-lived series ‘Beyond‘, but has also popped up in episodes of ‘The Flash’ and ‘Once Upon a Time’.
The original ‘V-Wars’ novel was written by acclaimed New York Times best-selling author and comic book writer Jonathan Maberry. Brad Turner (‘Stargate’ franchise, ‘The Shannara Chronicles’, ’24’) will direct the pilot and exec produce the show. William Laurin and Glenn Davis (‘Aftermath’, ‘Missing’) will serve as showrunners.
No news yet on exactly when ‘V-Wars‘ will come to Netflix, but we’d guess it probably won’t be until 2019.
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