Alcatraz from JJ Abrams: to be sf/f

[Starbreaker]

Alcatraz has scored Sarah Jones (Sons of Anarchy, Big Love) as the female lead. Link

 

[jefferiestubes8]

more casting choices

Abrams has recruited two more actors who have appeared on his previous series - Jonny Coyne and Jason Butler Harner - for the pilot.

Coyne, who did a two-episode arc on Abrams' NBC drama Undercovers this fall, will play the lead role of Alcatraz Warden Edwin James. Harner, who guest starred in the pilot for Abrams' Fringe, will play the supporting role of Associate Warden E.B. Tiller who enjoys and abuses his power.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/two-more-board-j-j-abrams-pilot-alcatraz/

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Yeah on second thought, this premise doesn't absolutely need to be sf/f, but I still think it's going to have at least light genre elements.

That guy they tapped to play the mean warden sure looks the type, huh?

 

[PsychoPere]

Sam Neill will be one of the stars.

Neill will play Emerson Hauser, the head of a government agency who radiates authority and piercing intelligence.

 

[Starbreaker]

Oh Lords of Kobol, Sam Neill picks horrible TV scripts.

Happy Town, Crusoe anyone? He hasn't been in good movies in forever either.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

pilot review and trailer

Tube Talk recently got a sneak preview of the Alcatraz pilot, so here's our thoughts on what we saw...

WHAT WORKS...
WHAT DOESN'T...
FINAL THOUGHTS

also the 2:45 length trailer in 720p is at the link.

August 11 2011
'Alcatraz': First Look at Fox's new sci-fi drama


looks pretty good. Sam Neill, yeah!
I'll be watching.
I hope it doesn't turn into a Fox police procedural with a little mythology.

 

[Christopher]

Yeah on second thought, this premise doesn't absolutely need to be sf/f, but I still think it's going to have at least light genre elements.

One detail that hasn't been mentioned so far in this thread is that the inmates that have now reappeared look exactly the same as they did 30 years ago. Pretty much any explanation for that would have to be SF/F: time travel, suspended animation, anti-aging treatments, clones, robot duplicates, mystical doppelgangers. Even if they were just impostors who'd gotten cosmetic surgery, the degree of surgical perfection required would be somewhat science-fictional.

 

[Professor Zoom]

A friend of mine had a copy of the pilot. Pass. I think it will quickly descend into "inmate of the week." I think it's to narrow of an idea to last for 5 years. Mighta been a good movie idea...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Yeah on second thought, this premise doesn't absolutely need to be sf/f, but I still think it's going to have at least light genre elements.

One detail that hasn't been mentioned so far in this thread is that the inmates that have now reappeared look exactly the same as they did 30 years ago. Pretty much any explanation for that would have to be SF/F: time travel, suspended animation, anti-aging treatments, clones, robot duplicates, mystical doppelgangers. Even if they were just impostors who'd gotten cosmetic surgery, the degree of surgical perfection required would be somewhat science-fictional.

When I originally posted that ten months ago, I don't remember the reading that they looked young. So I guess I was going on the assumption they'd be old guys.

 

[Christopher]

Oh, I hadn't noticed this was a resurrected thread from the past. How fitting...