By Starz has unveiled the main cast for “Spartacus: House of Ashur,” the new series set within the “Spartacus” franchise which helped establish the premium cabler’s forays into originals in the early 2010s.
Nick Tarabay reprises the role of the titular Ashur in the series and will be joined by Graham McTavish (“The Witcher”), Tenika Davis (“Jupiter’s Legacy”), Jamaica Vaughan (“Home and Away”), Ivana Baquero (“Pan’s Labyrinth”), Jordi Webber (“Choose Love”), Claudia Black (“The Nevers”), India Shaw-Smith (“The Pines Still Whisper”) and Leigh Gill (“Joker”).
The project is dubbed a “history-bending, erotic, thrilling, roller-coaster experience”. The story posits the idea that Tarabay’s Ashur didn’t die on Mount Vesuvius at the end of “Spartacus: Vengeance?”
Instead, he’s gifted the gladiator school once owned by Batiatus in return for aiding the Romans in killing Spartacus and putting an end to the slave rebellion?
McTavish plays Korris who is Ashur’s gladiator trainer, Davis is a female gladiator driven to surpass her male counterparts, Vaughan is a young female house slave named Hilara and is deeply in love with Ashur, while Baquero is a fellow female house slave in love with Hilara.
Webber is a brash gladiator, Black is scheming politician, Shaw-Smith is the politico’s daughter, and Gill is the leader of gladiators from a rival house.
Creator, writer and executive producer Steven S. DeKnight returns as showrunner for the ten-episode series is currently in production in New Zealand.
Source: TV Line
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