The Walking Dead’s Ryan Hurst bags lead role in new series – hinting Beta will be killed off in season 10 finale
THE Walking Dead’s Ryan Hurst has just bagged himself a lead role in an upcoming adaptation of The Mysterious Benedict Society.
Hurst currently stars as Beta in the AMC series, the new leader of the dreaded Whisperers – and this could mean he’ll make an exit from the show in the finale of season 10.
In his new project Hurst will play Milligan Wetherall, a former secret agent who is working with The Mysterious Mr. Benedict Society.
He will be joined by other cast regulars Kristen Schaal, MaameYaa Boafo, Gia Sandhu, Mystic Inscho, Emmy DeOliveira, Seth Carr and Marta Timofeeva.
Tony Hale meanwhile will play Mr. Benedict, as well as his twin brother Mr. Curtain.
The new show is based on novels that were first published in 2007 and two sequels were subsequently published in 2008 and 2009 titled The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey and The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma.
Last month Beta finally had his identity revealed – as a famous country singer.
Unlike Alpha and the other Whisperers, Beta never seems to want to show his face, with some believing it was out of fear of revealing something about himself.
Beta’s identity is actually recognised by another character in the season 10 episode titled Walk with Us.
When he kills Gamma for deserting the Whisperers, she stretches out and rips off one half of his zombie-mask.
He’s later revealed to be a country music singer in a diversion from the Robert Kirkman comics, where the character is a basketball player.
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Despite being incredibly popular among some viewers, it has been branded ‘incredibly offensive, disturbing and downright troubling’ in US watchdog complaints.
The Federal Communications Commission had a lot of complaints about the Whisperers, a group who arrived in season nine and hide their identities under masks made from other people’s flesh.
According to Observer, which acquired complaints filed from January 2017 until February this year, one viewer complained: “It is incredibly offensive, disturbing and downright troubling and gruesome.
One TV viewer from Texas wrote: “How is such violent (and sexual) content allowed on TV? AMC seems to be a satanic TV network and I believe this is a free channel, not a paid channel.”