Deadline is reporting that actor Patrick Fugit (Gone Girl, Almost Famous) has snagged the lead role in the upcoming Cinemax adaptation of Robert Kirkman & Paul Azaceta’s Image Comics series Outcast. Also cast in the project are Philip Glenister (Life on Mars) and Gabriel Bateman.
Fugit will be playing Kyle Barnes, who Deadline describes as “a young man who’s been plagued by possession since he was a child. He sets out to seek answers, only to uncover something that could end all life on Earth as we know it.”
Glenister will play Reverend Anderson, “a hard drinking, hard gambling West Virginian evangelical preacher who believes he’s a soldier in God’s holy war against evil,” and Bateman is playing “a young boy who lives across town who appears to be possessed by a demon and has a mysterious connection to Kyle.”
Adam Wingard will be directing the pilot for Cinemax.
Now for the other inevitable question: When will Kirkman’s Invincible be made into a TV show?
KSiteTV Editor-In-Chief Craig Byrne has been writing about TV on the internet since 1995. He is also the author of several published books, including Smallville: The Visual Guide and the show's Official Companions for Seasons 4-7.
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Invincible would be better as a movie, but tech jacket would be better for a tv show.
I could definitely be down for that.