‘Shadowhunters’ Cast: Magnus & Valentine — Harry Shum Jr. & Alan van Sprang | TVLine 

To quote the late*, great Rafiki: “The king has returned.”

‘s ruthless — and potentially syphilitic — King Henry, will play the villainous Valentine in ABC Family’s

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Brilliant, cunning, and dangerously handsome, Valentine is a mysterious Shadowhunter wielding immense power. His stoic, charming, and confident presence allows him control over his many followers. To seek out what he wants, Valentine executes anyone in his way, never thinking twice about it.

star Harry Shum, Jr. has been tapped to play Magnus Bane, the high warlock of Brooklyn. Here’s 

With eccentric style, he’s fierce, cunning and keeps his cards close to his chest. Though he looks like he’s in his 20s, he’s hundreds of years old – which makes him wiser and wary of others.

book series — follows a young woman named Clary Fray who discovers on her 18th birthday that she’s a Shadowhunter, a human-angel hybrid destined to hunt and kill demons.

These new actors joins previously announced cast members Dominic Sherwood (Jace), Katherine McNamara (Clary), Alberto Rosende (Simon), Emeraude Toubia (Isabelle), Isaiah Mustafa (Luke) and Matthew Daddario (Alec).

Your thoughts on their casting? Drop ’em in the comments below.

* I’m merely speculating that Rafiki is dead, but he was already super old in

, which came out more than 20 years ago. If I have time, I’ll look into it.

Great choice he is a great actor..lets see if he can rock the white hair lol

Yes! This is so perfect. He was a great fatherly villian on Reign.

Well, Rafiki was Robert Guillaume, who is dead… so logic states, yes, Rafiki is dead.

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I wish I could upvote your comment simply because you watched Earth: Final Conflict. Lol.

Is Magnus Bane going to be gay/bi in this show? I liked the fact that the film showed gay men as powerful, complex and heroic.

Well if they stick to the book, he should be bi (also, Alec was gay).

I do hope they show him like that, I loved Magnus and his relationships (both romantic and friendly).

I am not sure if this actor will want to play that, there aren’t many interesting roles for Asian actors as it is and I can’t think of any that are gay/bi. He might ‘flirt’ with guys but I don’t think he will be seen actually doing anything more. Which will be a shame.

I have been really disappointed in the portrayal of Ser Loras Tyrell from Game of Thrones. From what I understand in the books the character is a fierce and skilled knight but in the show he has lately been shown as having sex with men – end of character. I don’t understand why gay is being equated to weak, I would hope that in an urban fantasy setting that we could break with convention in lots of ways. So I would be surprised if the network will show this aspect of his character.

Magnus/Alec is one of the main relationships in the story and a fan-favourite, I can’t really see how they could skip it in the show. So, if the actor had anything agains playing that, he would never even be considered for the role.

That makes no sense, it’s true there aren’t many gay/bi asian roles (and all of them seems to be played by Rex Lee, LOL), but that’s why any smart actor should love to play this one.

Totally agree whit the part about Loras Tyrell.

Magnus is queer in the books. He was queer in the movie. Shum must have known that before he was cast, so I don’t see him having a problem with that. Let’s just see if he can pull Magnus as sexy as Godfrey Gao!

I think I remember Shum being up for the Magnus role when they were casting the film.

Loving the Alan Van Sprang casting… I think he will definitely be able to play that whole Valentine villain, hopefully they put a good blone wig on him.

Not fully on board with Harry Shum Jr. as Magnus yet, mostly because I love the actor who played Magnus in the film in that role.. but definitely giving him a chance to see what he can do.

Magnus is hoot and looks young can’t wait for the series know 😊

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