Showtime have been releasing a series of character posters for their upcoming fantasy/horror series Penny Dreadful.
Earlier this week we bought you Billie Piper as Brona Croft, Eva Green as Vanessa
Ives, Josh Hartnett as Ethan Chandler and and Reeve Carney as Dorian
Gray. You can view them HERE.
Completing the collection is Timothy Dalton as intrepid explorer Sir Malcom Murray, his right-hand man Sembene played by
Danny Sapani, and Harry Treadaway as Victor Frankenstein.
In Penny Dreadful, some of literature's most famously terrifying
characters -- including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and iconic figures
from the novel Dracula, all brilliantly reimagined in a whole new light
-- have become embroiled in Victorian London. The series stars Josh
Hartnett (Black Hawk Down), Eva Green (Casino Royale) Timothy Dalton
(The Living Daylights and License to Kill), Reeve Carney (Spider-Man:
Turn Off the Dark), Rory Kinnear (Skyfall), Harry Treadaway (The Lone
Ranger), Billie Piper (Doctor Who, Secret Diary of a Call Girl) and
Danny Sapani (The Bill). The series is a frightening psychosexual
thriller created, written and executive produced by three-time Oscar®
nominee John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator) and executive produced
by Logan's Desert Wolf Productions, along with Oscar winner Sam Mendes
(American Beauty, Skyfall) and Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, Call
The Midwife), both of Neal Street. Of the eight episodes, the first two
will be directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, who helmed The Orphanage and
the acclaimed film, The Impossible starring Naomi Watts in her
Oscar-nominated performance.
Penny Dreadful will premiere on Sunday, May 11th at 10PM ET/PT on Showtime.