{"id":28853,"date":"2012-09-15T10:14:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T09:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=28853"},"modified":"2012-09-17T08:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T07:51:35","slug":"psycho-prequels-norman-bates-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/psycho-prequels-norman-bates-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Psycho prequel&#8217;s Norman Bates is Freddie Highmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28854\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Charlie-And-The-Chocolate-Factory-Freddie-Highmore.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28854\" title=\"Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Freddie Highmore\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Charlie-And-The-Chocolate-Factory-Freddie-Highmore.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Freddie Highmore\" width=\"616\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Charlie-And-The-Chocolate-Factory-Freddie-Highmore.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Charlie-And-The-Chocolate-Factory-Freddie-Highmore-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A younger Freddie Highmore in 2005&#8217;s Charlie And The Chocolate Factory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Charlie And The Chocolate Factory<\/em> and<em> Finding Neverland\u00a0<\/em>star\u00a0Freddie Highmore has been cast as the younger Norman Bates in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/once-upon-a-time-season-2-adds-losts-jorge-garcia\/\"><em>Lost<\/em><\/a> executive producer\u00a0Carlton Cuse&#8217;s <em>Psycho<\/em> TV prequel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/psycho-prequel-bates-motel-new-poster\/\"><em>Bates Motel<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cuse previously describe the character as, &#8220;not what fans expect,&#8221; and that he &#8220;isn&#8217;t looking for someone to imitate Perkins, as this series will offer an original, multi-layered take on Hitchcock&#8217;s classic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also cast is mother herself, Norma Louise Bates, who will be played by\u00a0Vera Farmiga from <em>The Departed<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie And The Chocolate Factory&#8217;s Freddie Highmore to star in Bates Motel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":28854,"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":[2611,62],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Charlie-And-The-Chocolate-Factory-Freddie-Highmore.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28853"}],"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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}