USA Network has announced they have closed a deal with CBS TV Studios for a pilot order on supernatural drama entitled, Evil Men. The pilot will star Dallas Roberts (Dallas Buyers Club) and Clifton Collins Jr. (Pacific Rim) and will be directed by Gary Fleder.
The project, on which Universal Cable Prods. has come on as co-producer, was written by Daniel Taplitz (Breakin’ All The Rules).
The pilot follows Harry Killas (Roberts), an upstanding, middle-class family man whose life is turned upside down when he is approached by a frighteningly powerful entity and commanded to kill “evil men” or see his family — along with his city — utterly destroyed. However, the gleeful psycho who is meant to be his first target, instead begins teaching him how to carry out his new destiny. Collins will play Lazlo Kirk, the profoundly evil former war criminal with magnetic charm and a deep, unpredictable violent streak, who forces himself into Harry’s life on a twisted mission of personal redemption.
USA Network EVP Original Programming, Jackie de Crinis had this to say about the show: “This supernatural drama is a symbolic tale of good versus evil set in the everyday modern world, It is a highly relatable story that begs the question of just how far we would go to protect our families.”
Filming is slated to begin in early December in Vancouver.
More on this as it develops.
Source: Deadline
