STARZ has released a peek at the highly anticipated historical drama, Da Vinci’s Demons with their first look trailer. Da Vinci’s Demons is an original series penned by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Man of Steel) and will air on STARZ Spring 2013.
The Plot: In a world where thought and faith are controlled, Leonardo Da Vinci (Tom Riley) fights to set knowledge free. The tortured genius defies authority and throws himself into the future, forever changing the fate of mankind.
The series also stars Laura Haddock (The Inbetweeners Movie, Honest, Captain America: The First Avenger) who plays the celebrated beauty with obscure motives, Lucrezia Donati, Elliot Cowan (Marchlands, The Fixer, Lost in Austen) who plays the shrewd de factor ruler of Florence, Lorenzo Medici, Lara Pulver (True Blood, Sherlock, Robin Hood), who plays his wife Clarice Orsini and Blake Ritson (RocknRolla, Titus, World Without End) as Pope Sixtus’ ruthless bastard son, Count Riario.
Is this based on something? Like a comic book, novel? Honest question. Because seriously the man was just a painter and inventor, yes a great painter and a brilliant inventor, but this weird profit / illuninoty / Da Vinci code stuff..really?? How far into left field are we going with this?
I thought this was talking about a sequel to "DaVinci's Inquest" and "DaVinci's City Hall"