At Comic-Con 2018, LaBute indicated he had the opportunity to pull off the perfect prank and he took it.
Thanks to Peak TV there’s been an abundance of onscreen deaths on programming ranging from zombie shows to tearjerker dramas.
In the case of Van Helsing, creator Neil LaBute and cast member Aleks Paunovic have been in an epic prank war during the filming of the first three seasons of the Syfy series, but things bumped up a notch this season when LaBute decided to fake a script to the whole cast that indicated his character Julius was going to be killed off.
We see people die a lot on television these days, which means there are also a lot of conversations that have to happen behind the scenes between the showrunner and the actors who are about to lose their onscreen jobs.