Gotham’s Erin Richards Lands 3rd Bride Role On ABC’s Dracula Pilot ‘The Brides’
‘Gotham’ star Erin Richards has landed one of the three leading roles on ABC’s Dracula pilot ‘The Brides’ it has been announced.
The series is a contemporary reimagining of Dracula tale, described as “a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy, and their non-traditional family”. Whilst the focus will be on the three women, Dracula also features in the show.
Richards is set to play the middle “bride”, Renée Pélagie. She is the head of a top modelling agency in New York City, known for her torrid affairs with her beautiful female models. In her former life, she was the wife of the Marquis de Sade… Unlike her sisters, she invited actually invited Dracula into her “house of pain” and asked to be “turned” by him.
Up until recently, Erin Richards has been starring as Barbara Kean in ‘Gotham’. What may surprise some people if you only know her for ‘Gotham’ is that she is actually Welsh, and previously has popped up in UK genre shows such as ‘Merlin’, ‘Misfits’, and ‘Being Human’, along with the US sitcom ‘Breaking In’.
Richards joins the previously announced cast which includes:
Gina Torres (‘Firefly’, ‘Suits’) play Cleo Phillips, leader of the Brides. She is an imperious woman with a queenly manner, which is understandable, as she was a queen in her former life who was turned by Dracula after the death of her husband. Now a maven of New York City real estate, Cleo is challenged professionally by a mysterious newcomer, even as her ties to her sisters are dangerously fraying.
Katherine Reis (‘Rise’, ‘Claws’) takes the role of Lily Stevens, the youngest of the three Brides of Dracula. She is a striving singer in New York City whose relationship to a news reporter threatens to tear apart her marriage to her “sisters.” In her former life, she braved the streets of Jack the Ripper’s London, until being… ahem… “rescued” by Dracula.
Goran Visnjic (‘Timeless, ‘ER’) plays Count Dracula, the powerful, ageless, and iconic vampire who “turned” each of his three brides. In this new take, Dracula is left for dead at his destroyed castle in the Carpathian mountains while his three wives – Cleo, Renée, and Lily – flee to start a new life together. Although it rather looks like the immortal dark lord was not as dead as they thought…
Other cast includes Sophia Tatum (‘I Am Not Okay with This’) as Justine Strang, a new-to-town aspiring model who turns up at Renée’s agency. She soon takes this young, hungry, aspiring model under her wing, unaware that Justine may have a past with Dracula as well. Chris Mason (‘Broadchurch’) plays Roland Grant, a real estate mogul arrives in town to challenge Cleo’s supremacy. With secret ties to Dracula, Roland has a personal stake in the destruction of the Brides.
‘The Brides’ is written and developed by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’, ‘Riverdale’, ‘Katy Keene’), with Maggie Kiley (‘Dirty John’, ‘Katy Keene’, ‘Riverdale’) set to direct the pilot. Aguirre-Sacasa and Kiley exec produce alongside ‘Arrowverse’s Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions, who produce the potential series. Warner Bros. Television and ABC Studios also produce.
‘The Brides’ is only a pilot right now, but we should know by May 2020 if it’ll move forward. We’ll let you know if/when we hear more.
