The first episode of Lana Condor‘s new Syfy series is already out and we are very much obsessed!
Deadly Class is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of late 1980s counterculture, which follows a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins.
Lana plays an assassin named Saya Kuroki, who is mysterious and guarded with a deadly reputation. She was banished from one of the top Yakuza clans in Japan and sent to the School for the Deadly Arts to redeem herself. Driven to be the valedictorian, nothing will stand in her way.
Deadly Class will premiere on January 16th on Syfy.
“We were caught. DETENTION ⚔️,” she wrote on Instagram on Friday (November 9), adding in another post, “We’ve been working REALLY hard the past couple of months making @deadlyclasssyfy as epic as possible for you guys! I’m so beyond excited for y’all to see this new show 🔥.”
Deadly Class is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of late 1980s counterculture, which follows a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins.
That’s right, Lana plays an assassin named Saya Kuroki, who is mysterious and guarded with a deadly reputation. She was banished from one of the top Yakuza clans in Japan and sent to the School for the Deadly Arts to redeem herself. Driven to be the valedictorian, nothing will stand in her way.
Watch the teaser below, and don’t miss Deadly Class when it premieres on January 16, 2019, on Syfy!
You never know what kind of friends you'll make in detention.
Lana Condor wields a katana like a pro in this brand new trailer for her new series, Deadly Class.
The upcoming Syfy series, out in 2019, follows disillusioned teen Marcus (Benjamin Wadswroth), who is recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his own adolescent uncertainties may prove fatal.
Lana will play Saya, who is mysterious and guarded with a deadly reputation.
Saya was banished from one of the top Yakuza clans in Japan, sent to the School for the Deadly Arts to redeem herself. Driven to be the valedictorian, nothing will stand in her way.
“I was just so drawn to Saya’s mystery, and playing a character that has walls and is mysterious and dangerous was so exciting for me to do,” Lana told EW recently.
