{"id":41317,"date":"2013-04-29T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T09:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=41317"},"modified":"2013-04-29T11:37:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T10:37:40","slug":"guillermo-del-toros-the-strain-casts-kevin-durand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/guillermo-del-toros-the-strain-casts-kevin-durand\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo Del Toro&#8217;s The Strain casts Kevin Durand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_41331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41331\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rer-006-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41331\" alt=\"Kevin Durand as Barry Burton in Resident Evil: Retribution\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rer-006-1.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rer-006-1.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rer-006-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Durand as Barry Burton in Resident Evil: Retribution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Kevin Durand (<em>Lost<\/em>, <em>X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/em>) has joined the cast of Guillermo del Toro&#x2019;s <em>The Strain<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Durand will play exterminator Vasily Fet, who teams up with Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll) to fight the vampire outbreak, in the pilot for FX based on del Toro and Chuck Hogan&#x2019;s trilogy of novels. Del Toro will direct the pilot, which he has co-written with Hogan, confirming his status as the busiest man in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a title=\"The Strain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Strain-Guillermo-del-Toro\/dp\/000731129X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367228007&sr=8-1&keywords=the+strain&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy <em>The Strain<\/em> in paperback for &#xA3;5.24 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost and Resident Evil star joins Guillermo Del Toro&#8217;s vampire TV show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":41331,"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":[80,3155,2792],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rer-006-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41317"}],"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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}