French actress Camille de Pazzis and British-Canadian actor Scott Speedman have been cast in Shawn Ryan's Last Resort, an exciting pilot in contention for the 2012-2013 season on ABC.
First of all, to remind us all what this promising new thriller from Shawn Ryan (the great man behind a TV masterpiece (The Shield) and two fine short-lived copshows (The Chicago Code and Terriers)) is about, here's the synopsis :
The crew of the nuclear submarine USS Nevada disobeys a suspicious order coming from the US governement and thus become fugitives. They land on the island of Sainte Marina, where they take over the NATO listening station and declare themselves an independent nuclear nation.
I wonder if that Sainte Marina island they're talking about is Sainte Marine, a ria in Finistère, Brittany. Um... probably not.
Andre Braugher has been cast as Marcus Chaplin, the lead character of this show created and executive-produced by Ryan. Karl Gajdusdek (Dead Like Me) co-wrote the pilot. Autumn Reeser (The OC), Daniel Lissing (Crownies) and Daisy Betts (Persons Unknown) will co-star alongside Braugher and the two newly cast members I talk about below. The pilot will be filmed in Hawaii by Martin Campbell (Goldeneye, Casino Royale) next month.
Scott Speedman will play Sam Kendal, the second-in-command described as "the beating heart of the boat". It's not Speedman's first TV gig : he starred in JJ Abrams' Felicity from 1998 to 2002. He also starred in two Underworld movies.
Camille de Pazzis will play Sophie, a scientist in charge of the listening station when Chapin and his men decide to take over. She notably had a recurring role in the only season of Canal+'s brilliant esoteric thriller series Pigalle la nuit. She also played a part in the compelling family dramedy film Le premier jour du reste de ta vie (a.k.a The first day of the rest of your life). It will be her first english-speaking role, unless she speaks in french : after all it's set in Hawaii, on an island that probably doesn't exist in real life, with people creating a community there... maybe she's the new Sun and Jin.
Source : Deadline.
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