LUCIFER Pilot Adds Lina Esco As The Demon 'Mazikeen'

LUCIFER Pilot Adds Lina Esco As The Demon 'Mazikeen'

Or, "Maze" as she's being called in the Fox series. Joining Tom Ellis as the titular fallen angel, Lina Esco (Cane, CSI) will play a character first introduced in the pages of The Sandman: Mazikeen.

By MarkCassidy - Mar 04, 2015 12:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Lucifer
Source: Deadline
It seems ol' Scratch will have some company when he relocates to a slightly cooler climate. Deadline report that Cane actress Lina Esco has been cast alongside Tom Ellis in Fox's Lucifer, playing a character named Maze (almost certainly Mazikeen from the comics), who is described as "Lucifer’s best friend... a fierce demon in the form of a beautiful young woman." Esco has appeared in CSI and the Heroes webseries Heroes: Destiny, as well as co-writing, directing and starring in the independent film, Free The Nipple.

The pilot will be directed by Len Wiseman (the Total Recall remake, Underworld), who will also executive produce along with Tom Kapinos, Jerry Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman. The original logline for the show was pretty similar to the comic series, and had Lucifer growing tired with his infernal responsibilities and relocating to LA where he opened an exclusive piano bar called Lux. Now it seems it's "undergone an evolution toward a police procedural", with the character getting his kicks helping the LAPD punish criminals.
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Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 3/4/2015, 1:20 PM
Shouldn't this show be on NBC with Constantine? Also, it's supposed a police procedural. Really, Fox? You're turning Lucifer into a police procedural?

*Face palm*

This is one comic book show I won't be supporting. Even if they do a crossover with Gotham, I won't care (and I actually like Gotham).
nibs
nibs - 3/4/2015, 1:30 PM
@darkknight2149

I think police procedurals are the worst. But people talked about gotham being a police procedural before it started, and you've already said you watch that. Agents of SHIELD is/was a police procedural, and apparently people watch that. It could be bad. It will likely be bad, but I'm just suggesting that maybe you should wait for an episode or two before you get all worked up.
McGee
McGee - 3/4/2015, 1:34 PM
The pilot will be directed by Len Wiseman (the Total Recall remake, Underworld.


Ah...well...let's hope the writing is good.
McGee
McGee - 3/4/2015, 1:37 PM
Now it seems it's "undergone an evolution toward a police procedural", with the character getting his kicks helping the LAPD punish criminals.


Ah...well...I need to lay down for a minute.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 3/4/2015, 6:15 PM
@nibs

Sorry it took so long for me to see your message but there have been network connection problems. The reason I'm frustrated that this is a police procedural is because Lucifer has NEVER been a police procedural (at least not that I'm aware of). SHIELD is an governmental agency known for stopping terrorists, so it makes sense for it to be a procedural. Gotham clearly takes much of it's inspiration from the Gotham Central comic, which is a procedural set in modern day Gotham that focuses more on the everyday GCPD rather than Batman himself. However, Lucifer Morningstar is a supernatural character more connected to the Dark/Vertigo side of the DC Universe. Rather than making an original procedural with original characters, they are making a procedural with pre-existing characters that aren't connected to any police force in any way just so it will get more attention.
KeithM
KeithM - 3/5/2015, 12:46 PM
No. No. No. No.

Maze? "Friend"? Police procedural?

Just stop now. This isn't Lucifer.
KeithM
KeithM - 3/5/2015, 12:51 PM
Was there a single policeman in the entire run of 75 issues? Not in any significant way there wasn't (if at all). It ISN'T a police procedural in any way. Not even a little bit. It's about as far as it's possible to get from a police procedural. I hope all involved die a painful and lingering death (not really, but metaphorically).

Ugh.
KeithM
KeithM - 3/5/2015, 12:53 PM
Oh wait. There was the murder of the girls. That had some police in it. For about 7 panels.

[frick] this shit.
Humperdink
Humperdink - 3/5/2015, 5:40 PM
CSI: SATAN?

Looks like this pilot....

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....has gone straight to hell.

YEEEAAAAHHHHHH!!!
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