I am – Hercules!!
Syfy is talking to David Strathairn (“The Bourne Ultimatum,” “Good Night And Good Luck”) about playing the leader of its superpowered team in its pilot for “Alphas.” Deadline Hollywood describes the role:
Strathairn would play the overseer/team leader/prescribing doctor and all around mother hen to the team: an eccentric, absent-minded professor at times, who is also a cunning and manipulative power-player willing to bend the rules in pursuit of his objectives.
Let’s hope they put him in a wheelchair, like the Doom Patrol’s Chief and Professor X and Mr. Glass.
Jack Bender, the longtime “Lost” executive producer who also served as the series’ first-string director, has signed aboard to direct and produce “Alphas,” whose pilot was scripted by Zak Penn (“Elektra,” “Fantastic Four,” “X-Men: The Last Stand,” “The Incredible Hulk”) and Michael Karnow (“House of Buggin’”).
The pilot follows a team of civilians who possess overdeveloped neurological abilities. A version drafted for ABC featured a hot girl who could bend people to her will, a “Rain Man”-type autistic savant, an ex-FBI agent who could use adrenaline to give himself super-strength, and a woman who could destroy stuff with her voice.
The same story indicates Ryan Cartwright (“Bones”) is aboard to play the savant.
Find all of Deadline’s story on the matter here.
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