‘The Omen’ TV Series ‘Damien’ Releases Teaser Trailer [Watch]
"Damien," an upcoming horror series from A&E, recently released a new trailer.
In perhaps the most interesting movie to TV conversion, "Damien" is a direct sequel to the 1976 horror movie "The Omen" that starred Gregory Peck and Lee Remick. The new TV show has now released a teaser trailer that will have fans of the original film gasping.
According to Deadline, the series was picked up by A&E from Lifetime after a straight to series order. The series also released a trailer over the summer, which was significant because it did something that other shows have not. It showed that the series was a direct sequel to the original movie, showing portraits of Peck and Remick on the wall and a very grown-up version of Damien, who will be portrayed by Bradley James.
In the new teaser, the promo reveals a scene played backwards, a sign of the devil in popular depictions. The scene shows a woman lying on the sidewalk of a bustling metropolis, seemingly dead with broken glass all around her. As the scene plays backward, she rises up, along with the glass, and travels high into the sky, back into a room in a skyscraper.
At the end of the clip, the scene plays forward again, and the woman utters the words, "Damien, it's all for you." That line, of course, mirrors one of the most iconic scenes in the original movie, in which a nanny similarly committed suicide, hanging herself off the top level of a gigantic house.
From the trailer it is clear this series is a direct sequel to the original movie, and by all accounts ignores the subsequent sequels that came after the first film.
The series will run for 10 episodes on the cable network. It will also star Barbara Hershey, Omid Abtahi and Megalyn Echikunwoke.
Watch the new Twitter-released teaser below and the trailer from last summer below that.
It's all for you, Damien. The new series #Damien is coming in 2016. https://t.co/rBATzJtMMj
— A&E Network (@AETV) December 22, 2015
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