Michael Emerson is a PERSON OF INTEREST

[Starbreaker]

Lost alum Michael Emerson is set as a lead in Jonah Nolan’s CBS pilot Person of Interesthttp://www.deadline.com/2011/02/cbs...j-j-abrams-pilot-person-of-interest-to-pilot/ which is being executive-produced by Lost co-creator, The project, directed by David Semel, is a crime drama centered on an ex-CIA agent, presumed dead, who teams up with a mysterious billionaire (Emerson) to prevent violent crimes in New York City.

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He's one of my favorite actors of all time, so I hope this makes it to series... and has a more interesting sounding premise.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'm in!

I wonder if there will be genre elements to this. It has a little bit of the Minority Report idea...

 

[Starbreaker]

You won't watch CBS. Don't lie!

 

[Mr Light]

Wait wait wait does this mean he isn't doing a buddy hitman show with Terry O'Quinn?!?!

 

[Nerys Myk]

He was on Parenthood this week. Played a man with Aspergers.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

You won't watch CBS. Don't lie!

I watched Jericho!

Wait wait wait does this mean he isn't doing a buddy hitman show with Terry O'Quinn?!?!

Pushed to the season after this. Sadly, it will probably never materialize...

 

[Samurai8472]

The title and the picture in the link makes it look like did comment some crime

Also Johnathan Nolan the brother of Christopher Nolan is producing the show as well

 

[LitmusDragon]

I'll try to remember to check this out. Premise sounds kind of Batman-ish to me.

 

[Aragorn]

It's a crime show... on CBS... meaning they'll want it to succeed and there's a good chance it will. Of course, if it doesn't, they'll just replace it with CSI: Topeka or Hawaii Five-0: Indianapolis.

 

[Starbreaker]

The title and the picture in the link makes it look like did comment some crime

Also Johnathan Nolan the brother of Christopher Nolan is producing the show as well

Yeah... I mentioned that. He prefers to be called Jonah now for some reason.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I'm in!

This sounds interesting too. Count me in as well.

The title and the picture in the link makes it look like did comment some crime

Also Johnathan Nolan the brother of Christopher Nolan is producing the show as well

Yeah... I mentioned that. He prefers to be called Jonah now for some reason.

The only problem is that "Jonah Nolan" sounds too much like "Jonah Lomu"...

Wait wait wait does this mean he isn't doing a buddy hitman show with Terry O'Quinn?!?!

Pushed to the season after this. Sadly, it will probably never materialize...

I propose we pester the studios until this is given the go-ahead. WHO'S WITH ME?

 

[auntiehill]

Well, I definitely like Michael Emerson, so I'll give this one a shot.

 

[Seven of Five]

Wait wait wait does this mean he isn't doing a buddy hitman show with Terry O'Quinn?!?!

Pushed to the season after this. Sadly, it will probably never materialize...

I propose we pester the studios until this is given the go-ahead. WHO'S WITH ME?

I can't believe that never materialised. That show would have been gold if those two just read takeaway menus to each other.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

While I'm happy to see Michael Emerson in anything, I'm really really annoyed that this will probably ruin any chance of his show with O'Quinn. That would have been absolute gold.

 

[Aragorn]

Jim Caviezel has been cast in the lead.

 

[bigdaddy]

It fits into the crap CBS shows, so it will get picked up, but I doubt it will make it to a second season.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Jim Caviezel has been cast in the lead.

A bit of an odd choice - he strikes me more as the tragic Everyman, not the CIA badass - but I'm curious to see the dynamic with Emerson.

My hope for this show is that it's about two loose-cannon nutjobs, one with way too much money and the other willing and able to kill anyone, and the havoc they wreak with their self-justified insanity ("stopping" people before they commit crimes = targetting innocent people!) But since it's on CBS, I'm afraid it will be sanitized to the point where the characters are justified guardian angel types who never, say, murder the wrong guy.

Prove me wrong, CBS.

 

[Starbreaker]

Disappointed in the pilot so far. I really liked Unforgettable a lot better. Just don't have any interest in the characters or the muddled plot.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Well, the pilot was ok. The show is intriguing enough that I'll tune in next week. I really hope that they'll up the ante, though. If it remains a "case of the week" show, then I really don't know how long it can hold up. I hope that they plan to make it a bit more serialized. They can still do stand alone episodes, but I'd like to see an over-reaching arc. Michael Emerson was brilliant as always (even if he did seem to be channeling Ben Linus a bit at the beginning.) They had better not just restrict him to sitting behind a computer. He's far too good an actor for that. He's really the main draw, and the show runners should recognize that. Caviezel, well he needs to emote. I swear, action scenes aside, he was practically comatose.

 

[Starbreaker]

Yeah, that was my biggest problem. Hard to have a main character that is showing the acting range of a green bean.