The Strain Season 2 Episode 3: “Fort Defiance”
Directed by Guy Ferland
Written by Regina Corrado
Created by Chuck Hogan & Guillermo del Toro
Starring Corey Stoll, David Bradley, Mia Maestro, Sean Astin, Kevin Durand, Richard Sammel, Jonathan Hyde, Miguel Gomez, Natalie Brown, Rita Gedmintas, Jack Kesy, Ben Hyland, Robin Atkin Downes, Robert Maillet FX
Air Date: Sunday July 26th, 2015, 10pm
The Strain Season 2 Episode 2: “By Any Means”
Directed by T.J. Scott
Written by David Weddle
Created by Chuck Hogan & Guillermo del Toro
Starring Corey Stoll, David Bradley, Mia Maestro, Sean Astin, Kevin Durand, Richard Sammel, Jonathan Hyde, Miguel Gomez, Natalie Brown, Jack Kesy, Ben Hyland, Robin Atkin Downes, Robert Maillet FX
Air Date: Sunday July 19th, 2015, 10pm
Last week on The Strain, we flashback to Abraham Setrakian’s (David Bradley) grandmother telling the story of Sardu the giant, and how he became The Master (gross!). It shows the origin of the cane. Present-day Setrakian is captured by the Ancients, whom Gus (Miguel Gomez) has joined. The “Occido Lumen” is mentioned as an ancient book that might hold the secret to killing The Master (Robin Atkin Downes, Robert Maillet), since sunlight didn’t work. Eichorst (Richard Sammel) gives Kelly (Natalie Brown) back her mental faculties and a bunch of child vampires to command (poor blind children!).
We’ve seen a viral video clip for the highly anticipated new FX series The Strain, and now comes a brief teaser video to help build more and more excitement for the show.
The Strain comes from Pacific Rim and Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, based on their book trilogy of the same name, and will be captained by showrunner Carlton Cuse.
Recently we found out that The Strain, the planned new TV series adapted from the book trilogy of the same name by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, had been picked up for an entire season by FX.
To hold us over until an official trailer and the show itself arrives, a brief viral clip was shown during the most recent episode of The Walking Dead. The clip is titled “He Is Here,” and it involves lots of rats.
You can check out the viral clip for The Strain below.
Good news for fans of Guillermo del Toro and the horror book trilogy he wrote with Chuck Hogan, titled The Strain, as it has been announced that FX has ordered the TV adaptation to full series.
A little over a year ago we found out that the show was being developed by del Toro and LOST showrunner Carlton Cuse. Production on the pilot just finished up, and FX liked what they saw enough to greenlight a full 13-episode season, which will premiere in July of 2014.
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