Fox is preparing to introduce their history/sci-fi/cop-drama Sleepy Hollow, and Comic-Con attendees received a first look at the upcoming pilot.

Following the screening stars Tom Mison (Ichabod Crane) and Nichole Beharie (Abbie Mills) discussed a surprising aspect of the show - it takes place in a world where the typical 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow' does not exist.

Set in Sleepy Hollow, NY, the show rips half of the characters directly from the revolutionary war and then creates the tale in modern times.

"It forms kind of the ground work for it, its based in the legend that we all know," Mison told TV Line. "But from there, the creators have just gone off on a flight of fancy. [However], it stayed grounded in something that we know."

This allows writers to place Crane as a Revolutionary War solider, have him behead this mysterious foe, who happens to be one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, and then suddenly place them both in the modern world. The time-jump and bringing in a series of events and secrets form 250 years prior gives the program far more material to work with than just the classic Washington Irving story.

"With that freedom, from the end of the pilot, you begin to realize that anything can happen in this world that they've created there aren't really very many rules," Mison explained, according to TV Line. "People come back from the dead, people die unexpectedly, [and] there are monsters all over the place."

To get a better idea of what Sleepy Hollow will look like, check out the trailer below.

Sleepy Hollow will debut Sept. 16 at 9 p.m. on Fox.

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