Suits and Pearson star Gina Torres has nabbed the lead role in The Brides, a “sexy contemporary” reimagining of Bram Stoker’s Dracula from Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions.
Described as a family drama with horror elements, The Brides is inspired by the three vampire “sisters” from Stoker’s classic novel and is “a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy — and their nontraditional family.”
Deadline reports that Torres will play Cleo Phillips, the leader of the three Brides of Dracula, who is described as “an imperious woman with a queenly manner —understandably, 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.”
The Brides pilot is set up at ABC, and has been written by Aguirre-Sacasa, with Maggie Kiley (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) directing.
