Stargate Universe star Robert Carlyle is going from dark corridors and Ancient computer consoles to smalltown America and fairy tales. The actor has been confirmed as a full-time cast member on Once Upon A Time, the new fantasy series just picked up by ABC for its fall schedule.
Today ABC released the first trailer for the show, plus photos of the cast. Click on the images below to see the full-size version, and watch the video!
Carlyle plays the dual character of Mr. Gold in the real world of Storybrooke, and the infamous Rumplestiltskin in the world of fairy tales — both of whom appear in the trailer.
An unexpected surprise is Stargate‘s good friend Tony Amendola, who appears in the pilot episode (perhaps playing Geppetto?). A frequent guest star on Stargate SG-1, Amendola played the Jaffa master Bra’tac for ten years.
Check out the rest of the cast photos for the new show at HitFix.com. Once Upon A Time will air Sundays at 8 p.m. (7 Central) starting in the fall.
NEXT: Read ABC’s full description of the show
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Oh yeah, this was totally a good move for Robert Carlyle.... seriously this is a rip off of Haven, only with fairy tale characters.
I'm not into fairy tales, especially for the formulaic "safe" shows of Sunday night, but I will definitely watch this for Robert Carlyle. He has an uncanny way of making evilness "sexy".
I saw a bigger picture of Rumplestiltskin, and he looks amazing. Hopefully the writers won't make him "all bad", but rather kind of like Rush (or Ben of LOST), walking a thin line -- making things interesting.
Didn't know Tony Amendola was in it. I hope this is more successful than No Ordinary Family. My mom and I both gave that show a chance and enjoyed it and a lot of people I know enjoyed it as well. Network's can't keep on starting up these series and canceling them after one or two years because fans will get burned out after a while and not care to try anything new. Only reason I'm interested is because of the Stargate connections.
NoT my cup of tea, but ill tune in to at least check it out.
I'll check it out for Robert Carlyle and Tony Amendola, probably won't watch it regularly thouguh. I prefer Scifi to Fantasy
"You remind me of the babe."
"What babe?"
"The babe with the *power*."
"What power?" etc
Yeah I don't know....
preview didn't really catch me....
Wow, this actually looks amazing, I never thought that this will be such high quality production. And Robbie seems have a major full time role and very interesting one, nice! Makeup looks scary as I thought, but not so unrecognizable. And Jennifer Morrison from House is also there good (good looking actress who actually can act). This could turn out to be very good series.
While I'm not in teenager sappy fairy tales (vampires, mummies, wherewolfes), I love these classic mashups between pure fairy tale land and these days. Yeah, formula is not unique, it is not sci-fi of course (no matter how SyFy or others try to spin it), but it could be funny and interesting nevertheless.
So I wish them luck and hope that it will reach TV screens of my country faster than Destiny (well, they showed SGA last season just last year, so I have a bit to wait. And you ask why they canceled it).
This looks interesting , but why should we keep investing out time in these TV shows when all they keep doing is cancelling them after only a short time. I will watch it , but i would rather have SGU back.
LOL
What are you doing bobby.