Is That Neil Patrick Harris In The New Netflix Series? Look At His Transformation For Lemony Snicket's: A Series of Unfortunate Events

The "How I Met Your Mother" actor's new role is the leading part of the second remake of the 2004 movie started by Jim Carrey as Count Olaf. Recently, photos have been filtered courtesy of Netflix and Neil Patrick Harris is unrecognizable in the new adaptation of "Lemony Snicket's" series, available to watch on the first trailer already released by the network.

During the trailer, fans can only hear a voiceover of Olaf and the character off-screen. Harris has donned all the make-up transformation, facial hair, and costume that get him closer to the original version of the villain.

The story centers on Olaf's character and the three Baudelaire Children's starred  by Joan Cusack as Justice Strauss, Malina Weissman who plays Violet Baudelaire, and Louis Hynes as Klaus Baudelaire. These kids are left to him after their parents died under strange circumstances, but the real interest of the guard keeper appears when he makes multiple attempts to kill them to steal their inheritance which follows the book storyline.

The only choice of the three brothers is to follow all Olaf's clues left by mistake to sabotage his originals plans. Behind all the games, craft, and costumes, they slowly discover the truth about their parents mysterious dead.

For "Lemony Snicket's: A Series of Unfortunate Events" Netflix's version, is an eight-episode-season which contains the Snicket's 13 novels  that shares the stories of the three brothers and Olaf affairs .The show is produced by the book author and producer Barry Sonnenfeld, known by The Tick.

Count Olaf himself played by Neil Patrick Harris, invited his fans with a tweet to watch the official trailer, which says: "Time to meet the incredibly handsome Count Olaf in this incredibly @Unfortunate teaser. Coming to Netflix Friday the 13th of January."

Time to meet the incredibly handsome Count Olaf in this incredibly @Unfortunate teaser. Coming to Netflix Friday the 13th of January. pic.twitter.com/48pyrBXHZs

— Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) 3 de noviembre de 2016

The series premiere is on January 13, 2017 on Netflix.