Mia Kirshner (“24,” “The L Word”) and Fionnula Flanagan (“Brotherhood,” “Lost”) has have joined Julie Benz (“Angel,” “Dexter”) and Grant Bowler (“Ugly Betty,” “True Blood”) for “Defiance,” a Syfy pilot about a “frontier boomtown” situated on an Earth devastated by a “universal war.”
Kirshner plays the town madam, Bowler plays the local lawman, Flanagan plays the ex-mayor and Benz plays the hottest mayor ever.
The potential series was created by Michael Taylor (“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Star Trek: Voyager,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Virtuality,” “Caprica,” “Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome”), Rockne S. O’Bannon (“Seaquest,” “Farscape,” “V”) and Kevin Murphy (“Desperate Housewives,” “Caprica”).
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