Check out some images of Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies and the new stars of The Originals, the spinoff of The Vampire Diaries premiering next month.
The Originals is a new spinoff series of The Vampire Diaries taking the Original vampires Klaus (Joseph Morgan), Elijah (Daniel Gillies) and Rebekah (Claire Holt), along with the werewolf Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) and several new characters to New Orleans for brand new adventures.
If picked up by The CW, The Originals will begin airing in the fall of 2013, but on April 25, The Vampire Diaries will air a special episode that serves as a backdoor pilot to the series, introducing the storyline and the ensemble cast.
Entertainment Weekly has some first look images from the episode in their new issue, which show us some of the major players – including new faces Danielle Campbell (Davina), Charles Michael Davis (Marcel), Leah Pipes (Cami) and Daniella Pineda (Sophie):
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These images were posted on Oh No They Didn’t.
EW also has a great new article on their website, which takes a closer look at the episode, and also includes interviews with some of the stars.
The Vampire Diaries showrunner Julie Plec goes as far as to reveal the endgame – sort of. She says, “With luck, over a long stretch of time and many, many seasons, The Originals will ultimately be the redemption tale of Klaus and, possibly, the unraveling of Elijah.”
She also talks about the decision to keep Klaus around, despite originally planning to kill him off in season 3. “The choice to keep Klaus was truly born out of how magnificent Joseph is and how much the audience was connecting to him in spite of hating him,” Plec explains.
“He’s a villain whose family and the people in his life are constantly searching for ways to find redemption for him, and he’s constantly fighting against that instinct,” she explains, and that’s what we can expect to see more of in The Originals.
Tune in to The Vampire Diaries for the return of Elijah… whose actions, Daniel Gillies has teased, might shock us!
The Vampire Diaries 4×18 “American Gothic” airs at 8/7c on The CW.
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