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F. Murray Abraham, Sean Patrick Flanery to Star in Series Pilot
Paris Barclay to Direct
SCI FI Channel has signed Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) and Sean Patrick Flanery (Young Indiana Jones) to star in the hour-long pilot for the drama series Dead Lawyers. A Zanuck Company Production in association with Sony Pictures Television, Lawyers begins filming in Toronto in early December. Paris Barclay (The Shield, NYPD Blue) directs.
A series about karmic justice, Lawyers stars Sean Patrick Flanery as Jimmy Quinn, an arrogant, heartless lawyer to the rich and famous. After being hit by a bus, Quinn awakens in death only to find himself back on Earth, working pro bono cases. Before he can reach the afterlife, he must undo the injustices he committed during his lifetime. F. Murray Abraham co-stars as Thomas Whitelaw, Jimmy's afterlife mentor. Also dead, Whitelaw is the managing partner of the pro bono law firm and father figure to all the dead lawyers trying to make amends.
Dean Zanuck, Harrison Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard Zanuck will executive produce the pilot, written by co-executive producer Christopher Murphey.
Sony Pictures Television is one of the television industry's leading content-providers. SPT produces and distributes top-rated, award-winning programming in every genre, including series, movies and family entertainment for network and cable television; first-run syndicated series; off-network syndicated programs; and theatrical releases. SPT is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company.
SCI FI Channel is a television network where "what if" is what's on.
SCI FI fuels the imagination of viewers with original series and
events, blockbuster movies and classic science fiction and fantasy
programming, as well as a dynamic Web site and magazine. Launched in 1992,
and currently in 82 million homes, SCI FI Channel is a program service
of Universal Television Networks, part of the Universal Television
Group, a division of Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUE), the
U.S.-based film, television and recreation entity of Vivendi Universal, a
global media and communications company.
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