Justin Theroux Scores Lead in HBO Drama Pilot 'The Leftovers'


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Justin Theroux will star in The Leftovers, an HBO drama pilot from Lost cocreator Damon Lindelof, TVLine has confirmed.

Based on Tom Perrotta?s book, the project is set after the Rapture and tells the story of those folks that didn?t quite make the cut.

Per Deadline, Theroux will play police chief Kevin Garvey, a father of two who is trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy in a world that is starting to completely reject that notion.

Lindelof co-wrote the pilot with Perrotta and both will serve as exec producers. Friday Night Lights? Peter Berg is on board to direct.

Theroux?s previous TV credits include Six Feet Under and Sex and the City.

http://tvline.com/2013/06/04/justin-theroux-the-leftovers-hbo-pilot-damon-lindelof/

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Hot on the heels of last week?s news that Justin Theroux (Wanderlust) has been tapped to lead Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof?s new HBO pilot The Leftovers, four more actors have joined the cast. Deadline reports that Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who), Ann Dowd (Compliance), Amanda Warren (Seven Psychopaths), and Carrie Coon have joined the ensemble. The potential series is based on the book of the same name by Tom Perrotta and takes place after the Rapture, centering on the people in a small town that didn?t make the cut.

Eccleston, who will be seen later this year as the villain in Marvel?s Thor: The Dark World, has been tapped to play Matt Jamison, a former reverend and current editor of his self-published tabloid. Dowd will play Patti Levin, the leader of an organization that is somewhere between a cult and a movement, Coon will play Nora Durst, a woman who loses her husband and child in the Rapture, and Warren will play Lucy Warburton, the town?s Mayor. Peter Berg is directing the pilot.

http://collider.com/the-leftovers-christopher-eccleston-ann-dowd/

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