Guillermo del Toros The Strain Casts Its Lead

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The FX series is an adaptation of the director’s own vampire novel

Mia Maestro ( Alias , Twilight: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 & 2) has been cast as the female lead in FX’s TV adaptation of The Strain , based on the book by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

Del Toro and Hogan will co-write the pilot which del Toro may direct (in a lunchtime between films, presumably). Carlton Cuse ( Lost , Bates Motel ) will be an executive producer and showrun the series.

The Strain was originally published in 2009, and was the first in a trilogy, followed by The Fall (2010) and The Night Eternal (2011).

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