Freddie Highmore To Play Norman Bates In A&E’s ‘Psycho’ Prequel Series ‘Bates Motel’
Freddie Highmore, who played the title role opposite Johnny Depp in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, is taking on a far more menacing character next. The young British actor has been cast to play Norman Bates opposite Vera Farmiga in in A&E’s upcoming series Bates Motel, which serves as a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock horror classic Psycho. The series examines the twisted relationship between serial-killer-to-be Bates and his mother Norma (Varmiga). This marks the U.S. series debut for Highmore, who also toplined the feature The Spiderwick Chronicles.
Well, I guess the casting making sense. I did enjoy his moody, angst-ridden character in “The Art of Getting By”.
Ugh more British actors…
You are a seriously insular individual.
Oh now that’s an original casting call, said the casting director– never.
This cast is turning out to be terrific
Doesn’t matter if the script is bad.
I agree, excellent casting so far.
Freddie is a great young actor. I cant wait to see what he does with the role.
This could be somewhat…cool. If:
SCRIPT is above great
Because…
How many more serial killers do we, the audience,
have to examine to what? Understand they’re fucked up and / or evil?
It gets to the point after awhile, that we’re either
too fucking stupid to realize how “off” they are
or are also fucked up to watch another goddamn “study”.
I hope no one here is doing this — just — to get a paycheck.
Not with all the great unknown stories and storytellers out there being ignored by the system that could be as profitable as anything else.
“I hope no one here is doing this — just — to get a paycheck.”
When it comes down to it, this business really is just one big hobby, right?
Serial killers are reaching glut proportions. No more shows about: serial killers, cops, lawyers, doctors, gangsters and spies. We are full up or maybe fed up.
I’d like to see more underexposed genres – real sci fi (set in the future and/or space, not a cop show where they chase vampires and demons, most so called sci fi nowadays are just cop shows) and historical drama (of which there are several examples but history is a big enough topic for there to be many more).