Last Resort - Robert Patrick, Dichen Lachman, Omid Abtahi, Max Adler, Matt Gerald and Bruce Davidson join cast

I'm following Shawn Ryan (the awesome creator of The Shield) on Twitter and recently he's been telling us about many actors joining the cast of his exciting new project, Last Resort, in contention for the 2012-2013 season on ABC.

Last week I reported that Camille de Pazzis and Scott Speedman were joining Andre Braugher, Autumn Reeser, Daniel Lissing and Daisy Betts, and it looks like this unusual ABC pilot will feature a great big ensemble.

Indeed, in the past week, no less than 6 actors joined the show : Robert Patrick, Dichen Lachman, Omid Abtahi, Max Adler, Matt Gerald and Bruce Davidson.

As of now there's not much information about their characters, except on Dichen Lachman's (absolutely fantastic as Sierra/Priya on Joss Whedon's Dollhouse — which is a really underrated show, by the way). She will play Tani, a native of the island Andre Braugher's military crew settles on.

— Genre of the show : action drama.

— Network the show would be on : ABC.

— Where the show takes place : Sainte Marina, a fictitious island (shot in Hawaii).

— Director of the pilot : Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, Casino Royale, Green Lantern).

— Creator/showrunner/executive producer : Shawn Ryan (The Shield, The Unit, Terriers, The Chicago Code).

— Also writer on the show : Karl Gajdusek (Dead Like Me).

— Starring :


- Andre Braugher (Homicide, Men of a Certain Age) as Marcus Chaplin, the Captain of the rogue submarine.
- Robert Patrick (The X Files, The Unit).
- Scott Speedman (Felicity, Underworld) as Sam Kendal, Chaplin's Second-in-command.
- Autumn Reeser (The OC, No Ordinary Family) as Kylie Sinclair.


- Camille de Pazzis (Pigalle la nuit, Le premier jour du reste de ta vie) as Sophie Girard, a NATO french officer.
- Daisy Betts (Persons Unknown, Harry's Law) as Grace Shephard, a Lieutenant on the submarine.
- Dichen Lachman (Dollhouse, Being Human) as Tani, a native of the Sainte Marina island.

- Daniel Lissing (Crownies) as James King.
- Omid Abtahi (24, Homeland).
- Max Adler (Glee) - billed as a guest star on the pilot, possibly recurring afterwards.
- Matt Gerald (The Shield, The Unit).
- Bruce Davidson (Close to Home, Knight Rider).