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February 17, 2012 6:46 PM EST
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.
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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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