Why I'll Be Watching FX's The Strain

Director Guillermo Del Toro’s (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Orphanage) vampire epic, The Strain is being adapted into a series on FX. Here's why I'll be watching:

It's being done by this guy

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Guillermo Del Toro created The Strain book trilogy, and will be doing the television series.

That guy is responsible for this guy...

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Del Toro gave us Pan's Labyrinth

And he's also responsible for bringing this guy to life.

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Del Toro directed Hellboy

This guy will serve as the show's executive producer and showrunner

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Carlton Cuse was the executive producer and screenwriter for a little show called Lost...you might have heard of it.

This guy will play the show's protagonist, Ephraim Goodweather

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Corey Stoll is an incredible actor with great range. Don't believe me?

He played this guy...

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Corey Stoll portrayed the self-destructive Congressman Peter Russo in Netflix's House of Cards

But he also played this guy.

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Corey Stoll also portrayed Ernest Hemingway in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris

This guy will play another character in the series, Vasiliy Fet

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Kevin Durand

Who you may remember as this guy from Lost

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Kevin Durand as Martin Keamy in Lost

Need more? Here's some art from the comic version of The Strain

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I can't wait.

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