Singer and songwriter Rihanna is checking into A&E’s Bates Motel. Shortly after confirming that season five of the drama would be its last, producers announced on Friday at Comic-Con that the pop icon has been tapped to take on an iconic role on the ‘Psycho’ prequel series. Rihanna will take on the highly-anticipated role of Marion Crane – the iconic character played by actress and writer Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’. As a refresher: Marion checked into the Bates Motel but never checked out after Norman dressed as his mother, Norma, stabbed her to death in the shower. We wanted to thrust the iconic role into a contemporary spotlight and redefine it in a meaningful and exciting new way. 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, executive producers Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin said in a statement released after the Comic-Con announcement. Season four of the ‘Psycho’ prequel series ended with Vera Farmiga’s Norma Bates being killed off after son Norman in his ‘Mother’ persona filled their house with carbon monoxide. Season five is about the ways in which our show does and more specifically does not intersect with the events of ‘Psycho’, showrunner Carlton Cuse told The Hollywood Reporter after the season finale. 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. 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. For Rihanna, meanwhile, ‘Bates’ marks her biggest scripted acting role to date. The casting comes after the singer revealed that she was a big fan of the A&E series in a Vanity Fair cover story. Cuse and the show’s official Twitter account both took note and came to the Grammy winner with the offer. Other news from the panel included Farmiga’s return to the series for its fifth and final season as Norma and as an executive producer. The final season will go into production in the fall and return in 2017.