The British actor - who is best known for roles in 'The Tudors', TV film 'Elvis' and Woody Allen movie 'Match Point' - will star in the new series 'Dracula', which is based on Bram Stoker's iconic Gothic horror novel.
NBC, who are producing the series, said 'Dracula' - set in the Victorian era - will stay true to the story's time period, but with a "look to the future".
Entertainment chairman at NBC, Bob Greenblatt, said: "In the world of 'Twilight' and 'True Blood' and all the contemporised stories, we thought we'd go back to the original."
According to the Hollywood Reporter, it will be set in London in the 1890s, and see Dracula lead a double life as an American businessman interested in bringing modern science to Victorian society.
However, his plan to exact revenge on those who ruined his life centuries earlier is derailed when he falls in love.
The storyline is based on a script by Cole Haddon, and will be co-produced by Gareth Neame, who was behind hit British period drama 'Downton Abbey'.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.molliepmac | Aug 09, 2012, 08:13 PM EDT
Jonathan Rhys Meyers was active in opposing the construction of the M3 Motorway through the Tara landscape but you will not read that detail in the Irish newspapers. Poet Seamus Heaney called it the desecration of Tara- that was not reported either - only by the BBC.
Tooreenagrena | Jul 29, 2012, 02:13 PM EDT
irishCentral or is it Britishcentral?
Silling | Jul 29, 2012, 05:06 AM EDT
I saw an Irish car today-with a pair of Mick's-anaemics my wife said, florescent like a pair of corpses with an " O Thulle " coffin on the roof. Dubliners, they were, Bram Stoker country and possibly down for the tomatoe picking season. It's the same every year, we go there and they come here. Ryan Air white-outs they are known as on the Riviera, burnt as toast in a day and cursing the French. Don't forget Bella Lugosi, the one and only Dracula, "BEVARE".
JBRAFTREE | Jul 28, 2012, 07:37 PM EDT
I hope he's not as difficult to work with as I've read.Good actor none the less.
jamthecat | Jul 28, 2012, 03:12 PM EDT
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no...he is so wrong as Dracula. One of Anne Rice's vampires, maybe. But Bram's? No, no, no, no, no!
occassio | Jul 28, 2012, 02:13 PM EDT
He was born in Dublin and moved to Cork. But with all this British/Irish confusion, he'll be playing an American thus will have to change his accent? Not acceptable.
mcdolan | Jul 28, 2012, 01:28 PM EDT
Jeez! Where's his publicist? He's Irish, not British.
Murph46 | Jul 28, 2012, 12:25 PM EDT
WOW another vampire series ,where do I sign on.No creativity whatsover!
pounder | Jul 28, 2012, 12:25 PM EDT
Cork man.
rugbyplayer | Jul 28, 2012, 10:29 AM EDT
Right on,shuvonn-J.Rhy Meyers(not his family name) is Irish, not British, but I thought he hailed originally from Cork, not Dublin.
shuvonn | Jul 28, 2012, 10:17 AM EDT
He's not British, he's Irish, born in Dublin.....