Jeffrey Dean Morgan is joining Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell in the cast of the supernatural thriller Solace, directed by Afonso Poyart. The plot follows a former doctor with psychic abilities (Hopkins) who is drawn into a serial-killer case, only to find that the killer (Farrell) is a psychic as well. Morgan will play a veteran FBI agent heading the investigation who recruits Hopkins's character.
Omnimystery News reported that New Regency's adaptation of Michael Koryta's thriller So Cold the River has gotten a new scribe. Although Koryta had planned on penning the adapted screenplay himself, Ben Coccio (behind the upcoming Ryan Gosling-Bradley Cooper crime thriller The Place Beyond the Pines) is slated to write the script.
Sofia Vergara (Modern Family) is in negotiations to join Jason Statham in Heat, a remake of the 1986 Burt Reynolds film about a recovering gambler-turned-bodyguard in Vegas who decides to help a woman who falls victim to a mob attack but gets in over his head as he seeks revenge.
Documentary director Ross Clarke has come aboard the adaptation of Craig Clevenger's novel Dermaphoria, described as "Memento meets Breaking Bad." The story follows a brilliant chemist who wakes up in jail suffering from amnesia after a drug lab explosion and has to avoid cops and the bad guys who want the formula buried deep inside his head.
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Fox has renewed its new psychological thriller The Following, starring James Purefoy as a serial killer whose cult-like following is making mischief while he's locked away, and Kevin Bacon as the FBI agent trying to track them down.
Syfy has picked up the scifi thriller Helix from Battlestar Galactica creator Ron Moore. The series is follows a team of scientists from the Centers of Disease Control who investigate a possible disease outbreak at a high-tech research facility in the Arctic, and instead find themselves in the middle of a struggle that holds the key to the salvation or total annihilation of humankind.
Omar Epps (House, MD) has joined the ABC drama The Returned, about people who were dead and buried and suddenly start turning up as if nothing has happened. Epps will play a former cop turned agent with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Derek Luke has been added to the CBS pilot, Second Sight, joining Jason Lee as partner detectives. Luke will play Paul Giroux, the newbie on the team, while Lee plays the lead detective who starts having hallucinations that may help the team to crack cases.
Michael Trucco is reuniting with his former Battlestar Galactica co-star Tricia Helfer for the ABC drama pilot Killer Women. Helfer stars as Molly Parker, the only woman in the Texas Rangers, while Trucco will play her older brother Billy.
Jane Lynch and Wilmer Valderrama have been added as voice talent to the cast of Fox's animated comedy, Murder Police. They join lead Jason Ruiz (Six Feet Under), who plays a cop who is described as "nerdy" and more than a little clumsy and foolhardy.
Hope Davis has signed as the female lead in the CBS political thriller The Ordained, about the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. Davis will play the man's sister, a first-term mayor of New York City campaigning for re-election
The CBS pilot Beverly Hills Cop has added Judge Reinhold to the cast, reprising the role he played in the original theatrical film starring Eddie Murphy.
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