Abubakr Ali to Lead Netflix’s New Series, Grendel

Netflix has announced the cast of its new series, Grendel. Based on the masked vigilante from the popular, award-winning Matt Wagner/Dark Horse comic books, the first season is set to be 8 episodes long.

Abubakr Ali will lead the cast as the titular “Grendel”/”Hunter Rose.” He is joined in the series by Jaime Ray Newman, Julian Black Antelope, Madeline Zima, Kevin Corrigan, Emma Ho, Erik Palladino, Brittany Allen, and Andy Mientus.

Grendel follows Hunter Rose, a gifted fencer, writer and assassin as, seeking to avenge the death of a lost love, he goes to war with New York’s criminal underworld, only to realize…why beat them, when you can join them?

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Source: Netflix