Amph Marvel's Helstrom [Hulu]

Hulu has announced the cast"



And we have a character breakdown here:

The story follows siblings and supposed serial killer offspring Daimon Helstrom and Ana Helstrom. Plagued by their family background, the Helstrom’s will pursue the world’s vilest of the vile – with some family drama of their own.

Tom Austen (“Grantchester,” “The Royals”) is Daimon Helstrom, a professor of ethics who moonlights as an exorcist. Daimon has no illusions about saving a world he has no patience for; he just hopes he can help a few of the people closest to him.

Sydney Lemmon (“Fear the Walking Dead”) is Ana Helstrom who runs a successful auction house and suffers no fools, but her true interest lies in hunting down those who hurt others. Traumatized by her father as a child, Ana is driven to rid the world of those like him.

Elizabeth Marvel (“Homeland”) is Victoria Helstrom. Plagued by demons both real and imagined, Victoria has been institutionalized for twenty years. While she struggles to be herself, she hopes to repair her relationship with her children.

Ariana Guerra (“Raising Dion”) is Gabriella Rosetta, a woman balancing logic and faith. Gabriella arrives from the Vatican to help Daimon and Hastings uncover cases of demonic possession. She wants to save everyone she can, including Daimon.

Robert Wisdom (“Ballers”) will play Caretaker, a guardian of knowledge of the occult. He uses his knowledge and his relationship with Ana to help keep demonic forces at bay.

June Carryl (“Mindhunter”) is Dr. Louise Hastings, a psychologist with a strong faith but an open mind. Hastings Hastings is head of the psychiatric hospital where Victoria is being monitored. She has watched over the Helstrom family for years, caring for them as best she can.

Alain Uy (“The Passage”) will play Chris Yen. Yen is Ana’s business partner and her closest friend – some would say surrogate brother. He carries out the bulk of the auction house’s responsibilities and assists Ana with whatever she needs.

The ten-episode first season is executive produced by Paul Zybszewski who will serve as showrunner. Jeph Loeb will also executive produce and filming takes place Vancouver ahead of an expected debut next year.​

Still a shame that the programming block this was supposed to be a part of was effectively broken up by the cancellation of the Ghost Rider series that was in development. Even though GR was clearly the one people were excited for, I'm willing to give this one a shot still- though I'm unfamiliar with the characters.

 

I doubt they were trying to cover anything up- they could have just killed the project when they announced Ghost Rider's cancellation.If Helstrom had ended up in limbo like CAD S3, I don't think anyone would have questioned it. I also don't think Feige is going to put a halt to any projects already in motion since the next year or so would have Marvel TV content still coming out anyways (Runaways S3, AOS S7) and the D+ stuff doesn't kick in until sometime next year (second half, I'm assuming).

 

First pics found here.

 

Yeah, it's a real shame they cancelled Ghost Rider. You get the impression from the announcement that that was meant to be the anchor for this programming block and Helstrom was to be the experimental, lesser-known property to be buoyed by GR. One assumes that there may be theatrical plans afoot for GR, so they didn't want a series running for, potentially, a few years with such a title on the horizon.

That teaser looks pretty intriguing, though.

 

That's true- that trailer does underplay their involvement.

 

Ooh. Bunny Colvin. I’m in.

 

Was that the same church from Daredevil in the one shot?

 

To no one's surprise at all, the final Marvel TV live action series has been cancelled.

Honestly, I forgot this came out. I actually just resubscribed to Hulu the other week so was going to get around to it at some point, though.

Only MODOK and Hit-Monkey remain now for Marvel TV projects in general, but those two are animated.

 

Yeah- not having seen it yet and only going by the announced premise and trailers, it seems like this playing off of Ghost Rider as a connected horror block would have strengthened this- especially since you could get characters and such built up faster so that they could crossover with minimal setup.