A year after the end of The Vampire Diaries, Ian Somerhalder is set to star in a new vampire TV series for Netflix titled V-Wars.
The 10-episode series will be an adaptation of IDW’s comic series of the same name written by best-selling author Jonathan Maberry which chronicles the first Vampire War.
V-Wars tells the story of Somerhalder’s character, Dr. Luther Swann, who suddenly gets thrown into untold horror when his best friend, Michael Fayne, contracts a mysterious disease that turned him into a predator who feeds on other humans. Swann finds out that legions of humans have also been affected and transformed, and society soon fractures into opposing groups of normal people vs the vampires. As he tries to make sense of what was happening, Michael becomes the powerful underground leader of the vamps.
It also looks like Somerhalder will direct on V-Wars in addition to starring. The 39 year old actor directed three episodes of The Vampire Diaries during its seventh and eight seasons. He currently has a pod with Warner Bros. Television through Rare Bird Productions, a production company he and his wife and actress Nikki Reed created.
Somerhalder has become most known for his work in ABC’s Lost and The CW’s The Vampire Diaries. In the last one, Ian ended his 8 season as a bad boy turned good vampire Damon Salvatore last year. This time, he wasn’t cast as a vampire character. His role in V-Wars will be the very human Dr. Luther Swann, allowing him to play a bit against type.
While one streaming show about supernatural monsters moves forward, another falls behind, as Hulu recently passed on the pilot for Locke & Key. Like V-Wars, Locke & Keys is based on an IDW comic series (by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez).
There isn’t still any word on a premiere date for V-Wars.
> Mar MartÃnez
Ian Somerhalder to Star in Netflix Vampire Series 'V-Wars'
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