According to THR, the 32-year-old Originals star has landed a role in Dermaphoria, the film adaptation of Craig Clevenger‘s novel of the same name.
The story centers on a brilliant chemist (Morgan) who wakes up in jail after a drug lab explosion and is suffering from amnesia.
Trapped between cops who want to arrest him and heavies who will stop at nothing to get the formula buried deep inside his head, the man needs to piece together memories fragmented by a powerful new drug and find his missing girlfriend.
Production is set to begin on June 23 in New Orleans.
TELL JJJ: Are you excited to see Joseph in this role?
“I think it was amazing,” Joseph recently told JJJ about his character Klaus – Spoiler Alert – becoming a father. “I’m fully in support of the storyline, of course. We needed something that set us apart from The Vampire Diaries, other than the tone being a little darker – just something to really separate us and really drive the show. And they’ve done that with the baby.”
The Originals follows the original vampire family of Klaus (Joseph Morgan), Elijah (Daniel Gillies), and Rebekah (Claire Holt) as they head to New Orleans for different reasons.
Phoebe Tonkin and Claire Holt hit the carpet at the 2013 CW Upfront Presentation held at The London Hotel in New York City on Thursday morning (May 16).
