Ben Vereen Joins Rocky Horror Remake!
Steve Barton
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More Rocky Horror reboot news has arrived as The Wrap is reporting that the always wonderful Ben Vereen will play Dr. Everett Scott, an ex-science teacher now working for the Bureau of Investigation looking into UFOs who ends up at the castle while searching for his nephew, Eddie.
He joins previously announced cast members Laverne Cox (Dr. Frank-N-Furter), Victoria Justice (Janet), Ryan McCartan (Brad), Christina Milian (Magenta), Adam Lambert (Eddie), Reeve Carney (Riff Raff), Staz Nair (Rocky), Annaleigh Ashford (Columbia), and Tim Curry, the original Frank-N-Furter, who is returning as the show’s Criminologist Narrator.
In the small screen reimagining for Fox, sweethearts Janet Weiss (Justice) and Brad Majors (McCartan) stumble upon the bizarre abode of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Cox), a sexually ambiguous, flirtatious mad scientist. The doctor is holding an annual Transylvanian science convention to showcase the birth of “Rocky Horror” – a fit, attractive man (Nair) created solely to fulfill Frank’s desires.
Lou Adler, Gail Berman, and Kenny Ortega are executive producing. Ortega will direct and choreograph.
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