Netflix’s Lockwood & Co, a television adaptation of Jonathan Stroud’s supernatural thriller book series, has revealed its lead cast via DeadlineA Banquet and Bridgertons Ruby Stokes has been tapped to star as Lucy Carlyle, a supremely psychically gifted girl who, together with Anthony Lockwood and George Karim (newcomers Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati, respectively), run a psychic detection agency in London.

As the synopsis reads, the most gifted teenage ghost-hunters venture nightly into perilous combat with deadly spirits. Amidst the many corporate and adult-staffed agencies, one stands apart: free of financial motives or adult supervision, Lockwood & Co. is a small start-up run by a renegade trio. Together, they are destined to unravel a mystery that will chance the course of history.

Ruby Stokes and Jessica Alexander in A Banquet horror by Ruth Paxton

Lockwood & Co’s cast also includes Ivanno Jeremiah as Inspector BanesLuke Treadaway as The Golden Blade, Morven Christie as Penelope Fittes, Jack Bandeira as Quill Kipps, Ben Crompton as Julius Winkman, Hayley Konadu as Flo Bones, Rhianna Dorris as Kat Godwin and Paddy Holland as Bobby Vernon.

Though at the time of writing, the series’ IMDb page cites Danny DeVito, Ellen DeGeneres, Jerry Seinfeld and Ed Sheeran among the lead cast, we’re fairly certain that that’s not accurate.

The eight-part series adaptation comes from Attack the Block director and Ant-Man co-writer Joe Cornish. Lockwood & Co is produced by Complete Fiction, a company founded by Edgar Wright, Cornish, Nira Park and Rachael Prior.

 

 

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