Last week it was announced that Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) is set to lead the cast of Amazon’s Carnival Row, and now comes word that Cara Delevingne (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) has also signed on to star in the fantasy-noir series.
Carnival Row has an eight-episode series order from the streaming service, and takes place in a neo-Victorian city in which mythical creatures, fleeing their war-torn homeland, have gathered. Delevingne will play Vignette Stonemoss, who Variety describes as “a faerish refugee who flees homeland to come to the Burgue, where she must contend not only with rampant human prejudice against her kind, but with the secrets that have followed her to this new place.”
The series has been created by written by showrunner Rene Echevarria (Star Trek) from the Black List script A Killing on Carnival Row by Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim), who also executive producers alongside director Paul McGuigan (Victor Frankenstein)
