'ALCATRAZ': JJ ABRAMS, JORGE GARCIA HEAD TO A NEW ISLAND (DH, EW, VAR)
By Nancy Tartaglione
JJ Abrams and Jorge Garcia are taking a trip to a new island. The erstwhile Hurley will star in the Fox pilot, "Alcatraz," which Abrams is executive producing. Per Deadline, the project centers on a group of missing Alcatraz prisoners and guards who reappear in the present day and chronicles the efforts of a team of FBI agents to track them down and unravel the mystery behind their disappearance thirty years prior.
Garcia will play Dr. Diego Soto, the world's foremost expert on Alcatraz. As Deadline notes, he was the first actor cast in the "Lost" pilot, just as he is now on "Alcatraz."
The project, from Abrams Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV, was written on spec by "Lost" executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff, who penned the final version, and Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, who wrote earlier incarnations.
Sarnoff is showrunner and executive producer with Abrams and Bryan Burk. Lilien and Wynbrandt will co-executive produce and Danny Cannon will direct the pilot.
Meanwhile, in other "Lost" alum news, Variety reported on Friday that Carlton Cuse has teamed with Randall Wallace for a Civil War project at ABC. Per Variety, Cuse and Wallace are co-writing the pilot which Wallace will helm should it be picked up. Both will exec produce.
Details are sketchy about the project other than that it is envisioned as an event series and it is set in Virginia.
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