Lana Parrilla and Adam Horowitz at ABC Upfront in New York City.
Once Upon a Time moves to Fridays from Sundays this Fall on ABC, as the anchor of a new genre night leading into Marvel’s Inhumans. The fairy tales series’ reset will focus on old favourites like the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla), Captain Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) and Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) “with new identities in a new city, facing a new curse”, along with a grownup Henry (Andrew J. West) and his daughter Lucy (Alison Fernandez).
After six seasons, the residents of the Enchanted Forest face their greatest challenge yet as The Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla), Captain Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) and Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) join forces with a grown-up Henry Mills and his daughter Lucy on an epic quest to once again bring hope to their world and ours. Along the way, fairy tale characters new and old search for true love, find adventure and once again take sides in the struggle of good against evil, as classic tales are once more twisted and reimagined.
Evil Queen
Captain Hook
Rumplestiltskin
Several series regulars won’t be returning except as guest actors — female lead Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming, Jared Gilmore as young Henry, Emilie de Ravin as Belle and Rebecca Mader as Zelena.
And Storybrooke, Maine, is no longer the main real world locale. Young Lucy found her father Henry on the west coast of the United States in Seattle.
This likely means Once Upon a Time will be filming more in downtown Vancouver as Seattle and much less in the village of Steveston as Storybrooke.
The production schedule remains the same. Once Upon a Time season 7 is expected to start filming 22 episodes in metro Vancouver in July and wrap at the end of March next year.