![]() ![]() Gradually, over time, we finessed it and got it to a point where we were happy and had it down to about three and a half hours.”Īlso part of his advance preparation was going back to the series’ literary sources. The first time I went out, I was in the chair for nine hours, and the second day we did it in eight and a half. ![]() “We did about six or seven gos at it before we got on camera,” Kinnear recalls, “so that was four or five trips out to Dublin, where we filmed it all. ![]() Let’s just say he’s a man of many parts, and required the actor to spend a great deal of time in heavy prosthetics designed by Nick Dudman, who contributed to all the Harry Potter films and made the monster for Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound. Bayona) sees Ethan and his skills with a six-gun recruited by Malcolm and Vanessa to battle the supernatural forces infesting 1891 London.Īlso featured is British actor Rory Kinnear, whose role has been (not entirely successfully) kept a secret during the leadup to Penny Dreadful’s premiere. Te pilot episode (directed by The Orphanage’s J.A. Also starring are Timothy Dalton as explorer/vampire hunter Sir Malcolm Murray, Eva Green as clairvoyant Vanessa Ives and Josh Hartnett as Wild West show performer Ethan Chandler. Frankenstein (played by Harry Treadaway), Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney) and characters from Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel into an original saga. The series has more than TV’s usual share of horrific and bloody sights as it weaves Dr. Sondheim’s love for the Grand Guignol, for the joyousness of excessive horror, is certainly part of Penny Dreadful.” “I was in the midst of working on that with Tim Burton and Stephen Sondheim when all of this was percolating in my head. “ Sweeney Todd was a great inspiration in writing this,” says Logan, who scripted the bloody Broadway adaptation as well as Skyfall, Gladiator and other big-ticket features. At a premiere event in New York City, Fango got some one-on-one time with the cast and creator John Logan-who reveals that the show owes some of its origins to his stint on Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Ĭlassic horror characters from literature and film are coming to TV courtesy of Showtime’s new series Penny Dreadful. The key to me, in horror, is anxiety.Editor's Note: This was originally published for FANGORIA on May 8, 2014, and we're proud to share it as part of The Gingold Files. Maybe one of the reasons we're having a renaissance in horror now, at least on television and movies, is one of the reasons they had a renaissance in horror in the Victorian era in their form, which was literature. One can't help but think that we are somewhat in the same situation in America, in terms of what we're going through and where it might lead us eventually. You see how they lost confidence and they became a different people when the Empire died. You look back on the British Empire and you see how it fell away. They had a swagger and a confidence that mirrored American swagger and confidence. The Victorians wrote so many letters, they wrote so many books, they went on these arduous trips that would absolutely kill me. I remember reading a biography of Florence Nightingale and I was exhausted by everything she was doing. ![]()
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