Comic-Con: Rihanna Goes 'Psycho' With 'Bates Motel' Role
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The 'What's My Name?' singer is cast as Marion Crane, who was played by Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho', in the fifth and last season of the A&E show.

AceShowbiz - Rihanna is checking into "Bates Motel" in its fifth and final season. The Barbadian singer will play the ill-fated Marion Crane, the iconic role made famous by Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 movie "Psycho". Crane is the guest at the Bates Motel who is murdered in her own shower by Norman, played by Freddie Highmore on the TV series.

Rihanna's casting was announced at the show's panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 22. "We wanted to thrust the iconic role into a contemporary spotlight and redefine it in a meaningful and exciting new way," executive producers Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin said in a statement. "We also heard Rihanna was a fan of the show, and we were huge fans of hers, so it was the perfect collision of creativity and fate."

Also at the panel, it was confirmed that the upcoming fifth season would be the last for the show. Cast member Max Theriot will make his directorial debut during the final season, and co-star Nestor Carbonell will direct an episode for the third time. Additionally, Highmore will write his second episode alongside Cuse and Ehrin.

Showrunner Cuse told THR after the season 4 finale, in which Norman fulfilled his destiny to become the psycho killer, "Season five is about the ways in which our show does and more specifically does not intersect with the events of 'Psycho'. We are going to see a version of Norman that is much closer now to the one in the movie, but the way in which he acts and the events in the story will not be the same as the movie."

"They will cross paths with some of the events in the movie and lead to an ultimate resolution," he added. "What that resolution is and how that plays out is something that will be not disconnected to the movie 'Psycho' but will be very much our own story in the same way the entire series has been."

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