NEW SERIES: Neil Patrick Harris to Star as Count Olaf in Netflix’s A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS To Film in Vancouver

I’m excitedish to portray Count Olaf – its spending all day with those three horrible child actors that will be a challenge. #sneer #shudder

— Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) January 16, 2016

Are you a fan of the Lemony Snicket books? Or of the film adaption with Jim Carrey as Count Olaf? Neil Patrick Harris will star as the nefarious Count Olaf in Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events filming in metro Vancouver this Spring and Summer. A Series of Unfortunate Events tells the story of the three orphaned-by-fire Baudelaire children who are forced to leave their mansion to live with their distant relative Count Olaf. Turns out he’s scheming to get their inheritance so the children have to outwit him while solving the mystery of their parents’ death.

Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible.

Jim Carrey in the film adaption.

Netflix poster.

A Series of Unfortunate Events cast worldwide for two of the children — Violet and Klaus. Yesterday was the last day to submit a video to Lemony Snicker Casting.

Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events will film in metro Vancouver this Spring and Summer. Production is expected to get underway April 4th and wrap August 10th next year (dates subject to change) according to the Directors Guild of Canada – BC production list. Author Daniel Handler and Barry Sonnenfeld are executive producers and Sonnenfeld will direct several episodes.