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ABC's Untitled Roland Emmerich pilot will be cast by John Papsidera at Automatic Sweat. Can't really make sense of the logline: An astrophysics student finds out his father is implicated in an assassination attempt of the president. Somehow the ensuing chain of events leads to the student's revelation that he should stop caring about space and fight evil. Yeah. No info on when this is to shoot, or why, if he quits being an astrophysicist, it matter that he was an astrophysicist in the first place.
ABC's "Last Resort" pilot will be cast by Rebecca Mangieri and Wendy Weidman at Creative Casting. It's scheduled to shoot in late February. This one is about the crew of a nuclear submarine who defy an order to deploy their payload, and declare themselves a sovereign nation.
The CW's "Cult" pilot will be cast by Elizabeth Barnes and Corbin Bronson, and should get under way in March. I'm going to attempt to guess the plot of this show based on the network and the title: A high school girl moves to a new town with her family, but she finds adjusting to her new surrounding is not easy due to a clique of fashionable, acerbic, vampire-worshiping werewolf cheerleaders that rule the school. O.K., go look it up. How close was I?
Fox's Untitled Kevin Williamson serial killer project will be cast by Lesli Gelles-Raymond and Greg Orson of GO Casting, also scheduled for a March start. Specifically, it's about a social-media–savvy serial killer. Be sure to like him on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter at @Dextersux.
Fox's "Guilty" pilot will be cast by Gayle Pillsbury, of Zane/Pillsbury. No shoot date as of yet. It centers on a defense attorney who is framed for fraud and disbarred, after which he uses is lawyering skills to take on cases outside the legal system, and also exact his revenge on the butthorns that framed him.
Keep checking back for more pilot info. As always, consult the production charts for comprehensive pilot, film, and series casting info.
Update, RE: Cult: I was way off. Apologies to the CW, because this sounds cool and original and not-at-all related to rich high school kids: Two investigators work to uncover the connection between an underground TV show called CULT and and the mysterious deaths of some of its viewers.
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