A post shared by Tian Richards (@tianrichards)Television network The CW has announced the actor cast as the lead in the channel’s new Nancy Drew spinoff.Tian Richards will step into the title role in Tom Swift, set to spinoff of Nancy Drew‘s second season this year.
The character originally appeared in six sci-fi mystery novels by author Edward Stratemeyer. Stratemeyer also created the characters Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, themselves no strangers to the Hollywood treatment.Plans for a Tom Swift crossover with Nancy Drew and/or The Hardy Boys have existed since the 1970s.