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Lucas Till lands the role of MacGyver in CBS’s action pilot while ABC’s Shots Fired adds Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfuss, and Stephen Moyer.
Bill Paxton joins Training Day, Judy Greed to lead Laura Steinel’s comedy, T.R. Knight returns to ABC in new pilot, and more in our daily TV casting round-up.
The first ranger has been cast as newcomer Naomi Scott takes on the role of Pink Ranger in the Power Rangers feature reboot. The film will begin shooting in Vancouver in early 2016.
A round-up of the week’s TV News!
Logline: An action suspense thriller pitched in the vein of “Memento” meets “Lifeboat,” follows two survivors of a disastrous plan crash who find themselves trapped on a raft in the Pacific Ocean.
Logline: A typical, dysfunctional American family who deal with things by ignoring the elephant in the room have a hard time ignoring the literal two-ton African Bull elephant that enters their lives. When the oldest son decides it’s time for the animal to go, the family comes together to ensure its safe return home.
A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!
UTA signs the Broadway star.
Logline: A 40-something copy writer believes he is the bastard love child of Ernest Hemingway so he takes his slacker son down to Key West to usurp his birthright.
Logline: A young woman returns home to reunite with her estranged family after the death of her brother.
Logline: Pitched as “The Notebook” meets “Ghost”, a young widow returns to the seaside Inn where she spent her childhood and falls for a mysterious man with a dark secret.
Logline: Follows a college senior and his struggle to restore a fraternity house he accidentally destroyed his freshman year.
Jesse V. Johnson-helmed trailer goes viral.
Logline: A war vet returns stateside to work for his aunt’s crime family. When she tasks him with kidnapping a rival mob boss’ daughter for leverage, he finds himself in the middle of the crime war as he begins to fall in love with her.
HOT Thriller spec requested at more territories!
Young & Hungry List writer raises the stakes with his new spec as it becomes the most buzz-worthy new entry in the crowded spec market!
A closer look at this wonderful new animator/director Hollywood is starting to fall in love with!
Hot Young & Hungry List Writer… Hot Spec-Selling Manager… Hot on-the-rise Management Co = A lot of early buzz!!!
Logline: Pitched as “Jacobs Ladder” meets “Natural Born Killers”. The son of an infamous serial killer, and the daughter of one of the victims go on the road in hopes of tracking the killer down only to find themselves haunted by demonic forces intent on driving them mad.
“Passing Strange” thesp joins period drama!
Logline: After an OCD guy meets a shameless sex addict in group therapy, the two somehow end up on the run from the police and the mob, all the time carrying a severed head in a bowling ball bag.
Logline: After an OCD guy meets a shameless sex addict in group therapy, the two somehow end up on the run from the police and the mob, all the time carrying a severed head in a bowling ball bag.
Thesp joins Julianne Moore and Michael Angarano in new indie drama.
Logline: A black comedy about a greedy Texas family that plots the death of their matriarch for the insurance money, but when they find themselves unable to do the deed, they look to hire “Killer Joe” Cooper, a cop who also happens to be a contract killer on the side.
Logline: Two defensive players for a Catawissa Pennsylvania High school football team passed away. In their honor the team left their positions open for every play. They won the national title that year along with the record for rushing.