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Get ready Horror fans for everyones favourite child-of-Satan, who is ready to return our screens with A&E’s TV sequel Damien.
A direct sequel to 1976’s The Omen (ignoring the duds 2 & 3), the show will follow Homeland actor Bradley James as a 30-year-old Damien Thorn whose relatively normal life as a War photographer is turned upside down as he must confront his Satanic nature after suppressing the tragic events of the original movie.
“It’s more a case of not being able to articulate it when you’re five and strange things are happening,” explained James at this years Television Critics Association. “I looked at it as all that evil, if you will, was a noise. The only way he could escape that noise was by surrounding himself with louder noises. That’s why he became a war photographer. There’s a lot to be said for not knowing any different and not being able to articulate it yourself, having had no one explain it to you.”
Former Walking Dead showrunner Glenn Mazzara was also on hand to explain the process of brining The Omen mythos into a grounded reality for Damien. “The approach here is you want to see Damien’s humanity,” revealed Mazzara. “He’s an antichrist. So if you say Christ is all God and all Human, the antichrist would be all human and all devil. That’s an interesting character to root for. As Damien faces his humanity, he’s going to go down a path where as he’s doing stuff, we both want him to be stopped and want him to fulfill his destiny.”
Mazzara, who will also serve as executive producer on show, also confirmed that the show will tackle the tough subject of religion with Damien’s search for God “leads him to the Devil.”
“It’s a process. One of the things I wanted to avoid was I didn’t just want to have Damien fully cognizant of what was going on and a matter of people trying to flush him out because that’s a serial killer show. I wanted to look at someone who is supposedly tasked with this horrifying future crime, that he is going to bring about the apocalypse. Does he give into that? Does he fight against it? Does he want to do that or not want to do that? I thought that was very interesting. That seemed like the longest run. That seemed like the fullest story. That was a full character arc, a full journey.”
Helping Damien in his journey to discover his Devilish-roots will be Barbara Hershey, most remembered as Natalie Portman’s over-bearing mother in the Academy award winning film Black Swan. Hershey will once again channel that creepy-essence as Damien’s guide Ann Rutledge, whose job has been to protect him for much of his adolescent life and now must help the young man to realise his dark destiny.
The Omen will be the most recent Horror franchise to receive a TV drama adaptation after NBC’s critical lauded Hannibal, MTV’s Scream and A&E’s own Bates Motel.
Damien will premier on March 7, 2016 on A&E.
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