{"id":110954,"date":"2019-11-18T10:34:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=110954"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:34:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:34:36","slug":"netflix-horror-series-brand-new-cherry-flavor-adds-its-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/netflix-horror-series-brand-new-cherry-flavor-adds-its-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix horror series Brand New Cherry Flavor adds its cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&#8217;s upcoming adaptation of\u00a0<em><strong>Brand New Cherry Flavor<\/strong><\/em> is beefing up the cast this week, having added Rosa Salazar, Catherine Keener, Manny Jacinto, Eric Lange and Jeff Ward, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/11\/brand-new-cherry-flavor-series-netflix-rosa-salazar-star-catherine-keener-eric-lange-jeff-ward-manny-jacinto-co-star-horror-adaptation-todd-grimson-1202787381\/\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Salazar is best known for playing the titular character in\u00a0<em><strong>Alita: Battle Angel<\/strong><\/em> and for her work in projects like\u00a0<em><strong>The Divergent Series<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Maze Runner\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>Bird Box<\/strong><\/em>. She will be playing the lead in the new Netflix series.<\/p>\n<p>Keener has starred in\u00a0<em><strong>The 40-Year-Old Virgin<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Get Out<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Being John Malkovich<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0<em><strong>Capote<\/strong><\/em>. Jacinto is best known starring as loveable idiot Jason Mendoza in NBC comedy series\u00a0<em><strong>The Good Place<\/strong><\/em>. Lange&#8217;s credits include\u00a0<em><strong>Lost<\/strong><\/em><em>,\u00a0<strong>The Bridge\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>Angel<\/strong><\/em>, and he recently appeared as Detective Parker in Netflix series\u00a0<em><strong>Unbelievable<\/strong><\/em>. Ward is known for playing Deke Shaw in\u00a0<em><strong>Marvel&#8217;s Agents Of SHIELD<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Brand New Cherry Flavor\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is based on the occult horror novel of the same name by Todd Grimson. It follows Lisa Nova (Salazar), &#8220;an aspiring film director in the sun-drenched but seamy world of 1990 Los Angeles who embarks on a mind-altering journey \u2014 from the streets of Beverly Hills to the forests of Brazil \u2014 of supernatural revenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Netflix and UCP are producing the series, which will be an eight-episode drama series. It will be written by Nick Antosca (<em><strong>The Act<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Channel Zero<\/strong><\/em>) and Lenore Zion (<em><strong>Billions<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Channel Zero<\/strong><\/em>), with both writers producing through Antosca&#8217;s Eat the Cat banner. Arkasha Stevenson will direct the first episode of the series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get all the latest horror news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix horror series Brand New Cherry Flavor adds Rosa Salazar, Catherine Keener and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":110955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[6687],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-10.32.23.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127533,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110954\/revisions\/127533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}