EXCLUSIVE: Former Gray’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey is returning to broadcast TV because the lead of Reminiscence of a Killer, Fox’s straight-to-series thriller a few hitman who develops early onset Alzheimer’s. The community is anticipated to unveil his casting at its upfront presentation Monday.
From writers Ed Whitmore and Tracey Malone, Warner Bros. TV and Fox Leisure, the sequence is impressed by the 2003 Belgian movie De Zaak Alzheimer (La Memoire Du Tueur), which was remade because the 2022 American motion thriller movie Reminiscence directed by Martin Campbell.
Dempsey is ready for the lead function performed by Jan Decleir within the authentic film and Liam Neeson within the American function adaptation.
In Reminiscence of a Killer, Angelo Ledda (Dempsey) lives two completely separate lives — fearsome NYC hitman and sleepy upstate Cooperstown photocopier salesman and father. Each of them are threatened when he’s identified with Alzheimer’s, a illness he already misplaced his older brother to.
To additional complicate issues, he discovers that his spouse’s latest dying might not have been an accident. When somebody comes after his daughter — who’s pregnant — it’s clear the wall between his lives has been breached. Angelo should cease whoever’s coming for his household by looking his previous hits for clues, and the record could be very lengthy. Reminiscence of a Killer is a redemptive story a few man who’s dropping his reminiscence however gaining a conscience.
In making the announcement about Reminiscence of a Killer pickup, Michael Thorn, President of Fox Tv Community, spoke of the lead character Dempsey can be enjoying.
“Within the spirit of 24 and Home, we’re introducing a daring new signature Fox lead, an advanced antihero going through unimaginable hazard,” he mentioned.
Dempsey’s casting is anticipated to be introduced on the Fox upfront stage by one other former star of successful broadcast drama making his return to community TV because the lead of a brand new Fox sequence, The Good Spouse alum Josh Charles who headlines Fox’s Greatest Medication, an adaptation of the UK hit Doc Martin.
Reminiscence of a Killer, produced by Warner Bros. Tv and Fox Leisure, is from Whitmore and Malone, who government produce alongside Cathy Schulman of Welle Leisure. Arthur Sarkissian and Campbell are additionally government producers, together with Peter Bouckaert of Eyeworks. Schulman and Sarkissian have been producers on the 2022 movie Reminiscence.
Identified for his function as Derek Shepherd on Gray’s Anatomy, Dempsey is coming off a one-year starring stint on Showtime’s Dexter: Authentic Sin. This marks his first broadcast sequence since Gray’s. He’s repped by UTA, Burstein Firm and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.
