A few months ago it was revealed that Neil Patrick Harris had been cast to play Count Olaf in Netflix’s uncoming series of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Now someone has managed to grab the first snap of him on the set, and if you weren’t told it was him, you probably wouldn’t believe it.
They’ve sure gone the whole hog with the prosthetics to give him the unique look of the creepy uncle-figure (actually a distant cousin) who takes in a trio of orphans. Olaf is the nefarious baddie, who ends up looking after Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, while having designs on their fortune.
Barry Sonnenfeld (Men In Black) is directing the first episode of the series, which is currently shooting Vancouver. It’s not known exactly when the show will be released. [Read more…]