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The Cape (TV)

6/9/10 - British actor Vinnie Jones has joined NBC's The Cape as a series regular, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Jones will play a powerful criminal, Scales, a frightening man with a freakish skin condition that gives him the appearance of green and gold scales. The casting marks his first regular TV role.

5/14/10 - NBC picked up The Cape the network announced.  The Cape stars David Lyons and  Summer Glau. The Cape is a one-hour drama series starring David Lyons as Vince Faraday, an honest cop on a corrupt police force, who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed dead. He is forced into hiding, leaving behind his wife, Dana (Jennifer Ferrin) and son, Trip (Ryan Wynott). Fueled by a desire to reunite with his family and to battle the criminal forces that have overtaken Palm City, Faraday becomes The Cape his son's favorite comic book superhero—and takes the law into his own hands. Rounding out the cast are James Frain as billionaire Peter Fleming—The Cape's nemesis—who moonlights as the twisted killer: Chess; Keith David as Max Malini, the ringleader of a circus gang of bank robbers who mentors Vince Faraday and trains him to be The Cape; Summer Glau as Orwell, an investigative blogger who wages war on crime and corruption in Palm City; and Dorian Missick as Marty Voyt, a former police detective and friend to Faraday.

3/12/10 - Summer Glau is set to star in NBC's upcoming superhero pilot The Cape, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  In the pilot, directed by Simon West, a former cop (David Lyons) is set up as a criminal and becomes a masked hero, the Cape, to clear his name.  Glau will play Orwell, a cute and intrepid investigative blogger who fearlessly goes after corrupt cops and costumed bad guys.

1/28/10 - NBC on Thursday picked up a pilot drama The Cape, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The Cape, from Empire creator Tom Wheeler, is a light drama with a comic book sensibility.  Set in a fictionalized version of Los Angeles, it centers on a former cop framed for a crime who becomes the Cape, a masked hero, to clear his name and reunite with his son.  The project, from UMS and BermanBraun, was originally set up at NBC in the fall with a premium script commitment.  Wheeler wrote the script and is exec producing with Lloyd Braun and Gail Berman.

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