Van Helsing lives again as a TV series in development at CBS, but the premise isn’t what we were expecting.
Deadline dropped the news on June 26, stating that Jonathan Lee, the man behind Netflix and BBC’s upcoming drama series Lockerbie, is writing the show, which is reworking the famous character into a modern-day investigator.
According to Deadline and the logline that was shared, the new series is “a contemporary take on the monster hunter Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, who uses his uniquely inquisitive mind working alongside his ex, relentless FBI special agent Mina Harker, to solve New York City’s most harrowing cases.” Though we’ve yet to learn what those “harrowing cases” might be, this already sounds quite a bit like a riff on The X-Files‘ format, which is always very welcome.
