Kristin Kreuk to Star in 'Beauty and the Beast’ TV Series Remake

The CW is remaking the Beauty and the Beast television series and actress Kristin Kreuk of Smallville fame is set to star, Deadline.com reported.

Beauty and the Beast was a popular series that ran from 1987 through 1990.

It starred Terminator actress Linda Hamilton as attorney Catherine Chandler and Ron Perlman as Vincent, a lion-faced man who lived with other society outcasts in a series of tunnels that ran underneath New York City.

Kreuk's character will be a homicide detective and the Beast role will be that of a guy who was transformed after a military experiment, Inquisitr reported.

Sounds a bit far-fetched, but so was the original series and that did quite well.

Perlman received major props for playing Vincent, including a Golden Globe in 1989 for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

And here's a fun fact for fans of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series: He wrote and produced several Beauty and the Beast episodes.

Kreuk's roles have been pretty low-key since her Smallville departure, although she appeared in a few episodes of NBC's defunct show Chuck, playing a love interest to the title character.

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