Production is underway in New Zealand on Spartacus: House of Ashur, with Nick Tarabay reprising the role of the Ashur (pictured).
Cast on the Steven S. DeKnight-led, 10-episode series includes Graham McTavish (The Witcher, Outlander), Tenika Davis (Jupiter’s Legacy), Jamaica Vaughan (Home & 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 series commissioned by Starz is described as a “history-bending, erotic, thrilling, roller-coaster experience that builds on everything that made the original series a colossal hit. The series poses the question: what if Ashur, played by fan favorite Nick Tarabay, hadn’t died on Mount Vesuvius at the end of Spartacus: Vengeance? And what if he had been 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,” a former gladiator who won his freedom in the arena and is now Ashur’s Doctore, training the gladiators in Ashur’s Ludus, while Vaughan plays “Hilara,” a young, elevated house slave, deeply in love with Ashur.
So if we are reviving former (and even expired) characters, has anyone picked up the phone to Liam McIntyre or Dustin Clare? Time to hit the gym boys.
The series will screen on Stan when it premieres in Australia.
Source: Deadline
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