Just within this past week we’ve brought you casting updates for Fox’s supernatural thriller Sleepy Hollow pilot. Now today, we get word on the casting of their lead character Ichabod Crane.
Deadline reports, British actor Tom Mison (One Day) has landed the lead in Sleepy Hollow, Fox’s drama pilot written by Alex Kurtzman, Bob Orci and Phillip Iscove and directed by Len Wiseman.
A modern–day supernatural thriller based on The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, the project, from 20th TV and K/O, follows Ichabod Crane (Mison) as he partners with Sleepy Hollow’s Detective Abbie Archer (Nicole Beharie) to solve the mysteries of a town ravaged by the battle between good and evil. A captain from the Revolutionary War where he takes off a horseman’s head, Ichabod gets time warped into present day where he is confused by the modern technology but turns out to be a great detective once his enemy, The Headless Horseman, comes back to haunt the town.
Mison joins already cast Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones and Katia Winter.
Keep it tuned to Horror Society for all the latest news on Sleepy Hollow.
