Ian Somerhalder Is Set To Star In A New Vampire Series

Ian Somerhalder couldn't stay away from the vampire trope for long! One year immediately following the conclusion of The Vampire Diaries, the actor's next project has been reported, and yes it sounds like we're in for another bloody good time.


Somerhalder is set to star in Netflix's V-Wars about the initial Vampire War, based on Jonathan Maberry's book franchise of the same name.


He'll play Dr. Luther Swann, a human who watches as his best friend, Michael Fayne, succumbs to an infection that turns him into a human-eating predator. Because the infection spreads, Dr. Swann tries to calculate what is going on while Fayne becomes the leader of the newborn vampires. The role of Fayne hasn't nevertheless been cast.


However he's playing a mere mortal in V-Wars, Somerhalder will be tapping into his genre expertise to direct select episodes of the 10-episode first season. Certainly, he honed his supernatural skills over eight seasons of The Vampire Diaries on The CW, where he played vampire Damon Salvatore, anti-hero and one point of the Damon-Elena-Stefan love triangle.