Frank Langella has been tapped to lead the cast of The Fall of the House of Usher, Mike Flanagan’s upcoming Netflix limited series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Also starring are Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, Carl Lumbly and Mark Hamill. Flanagan and his Intrepid Pictures partner Trevor Macy confirmed the castings Thursday on Twitter.Langella will star as Roderick Usher, the towering patriarch of the Usher dynasty.
Gugino joins in an undisclosed role, along with McDonnell as Roderick’s twin sister and the hidden hand of the Usher dynasty; Lumbly as Poe’s legendary investigator C.
Auguste Dupin, and Hamill, also playing an undisclosed character.Additional cast will be announced tomorrow.The Fall of the House of Usher is a short
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