Dollhouse and Battlestar Galactica starTahmoh Peniketthas shoot down another major scientific discipline fiction role , this time in a TV - movie adaptation of Philip José Farmer ’s Riverworld , as the Syfy Channel seek to replace , well … BSG , mostly .
The Riverworld books are set on an exotic ( but Earth - like ) satellite in the far future where , for some unknown reason , everybody who has ever lived is simultaneously resurrected as healthy , twenty - five yr old versions of themselves . The various tarradiddle put in this universe explore both how noted historical material body interact with each other and their strange new surroundings , as well as the larger attempts by the thirty - six billion the great unwashed on the planet to recreate human order .
Penikett plays Matt Ellman , a war correspondent who is killed and uprise along with his fiancé , played by Smallville ’s Laura Vandervoort . The two graphic symbol , who as far as I can tell are being newly make for the miniseries , will dish out as the protagonists and audience identification physique as they attempt to give away Riverworld ’s mystery and discover the sometimes surprising identity of the famous people they now fulfil . Joining them in the cast are Jeananne Goossen , Mark Delkin , and Alan Cumming as “ The Caretaker . ”
Riverworld is just one of three four - hour movies , along with new adaptations ofThe Phantomand Alice in Wonderland , that RHI Entertainment is producing for the Sci Fi canal ; RHI was previously behind the Tin Man miniseries that aerate in 2007 . All three are being considered as back door pilots , in that they may become regular series if ratings and revue are hard enough , similar to Battlestar Galactica . ( It ’s peculiarly fitting Penikett would now be the sensation of such a movie , considering Helo was never even supposed to hold up past the BSG miniseries . )
Of the three , Riverworld is considered the good candidate for a follow - up television set serial , although the other two are not without potential . The Phantom adjust the long - running amusing strip , which follows Kit Walker , the twenty - first member of his sept to bear the pall of the Phantom in a tradition that extend back to the 1500s . Screenwriter Daniel Knaufexplained the TV - movie ’s particular takeon The Phantom story to Newsarama back in 2008 :
“ In our story , we have a suspension in the lineage . The twenty-second Phantom , the one we all recognise and love , his married woman and his son pass in an auto accident . So when he died , there was no one to take over … But it turn out the Logos last and has been upgrade by a surrogate category and has no mind who he is . They find him through a fluke when he ’s catch on a trespassing charge , and he ends up getting his DNA into CODIS [ the home DNA database ] . The people in Bangalla who are still part of the Jungle Patrol — which we call Bpaa - Thap ( which literally translates to ‘ Jungle Patrol ’ ) — they chance him and decide to impart him in and civilize him . So it ’s a whole unexampled plot for this kid . So he ’s very conflicted , as far as who he was and who he remember he is . ”
despairing Housewives actor Ryan Carnes is lay to toy the Phantom , with Isabella Rossellini guest - starring as Lithia , a mind - control experiment ’s evil director ( but then , is there any other kind ? ) . Cameron Goodman and Sandrine Holt have also joined the cast . Less is known about Alice , RHI ’s third project . ( Although wefound a scary - looking photoof Whoopi Goldberg as the Cheshire Cat on RHI ’s website . ) As one could probably guess , it promises to be a darker , more grownup revamp of Lewis Carroll ’s classic along the same lines of how Tin Man reworked The Wizard of Oz .
https://gizmodo.com/riverworld-the-tv-series-5181226
Of course , there ’s one question that hangs over any Tahmoh Penikett casting announcement – what does this signify for Dollhouse ? The short answer is “ not much . ” Riverworld and The Phantom started product yesterday , with planned air engagement lay out for 2010 . Considering the Syfy Channel ’s common meantime between miniseries and serial ( there were ten months split up the BSG miniseries and the first sequence of the serial proper ) , any regular series that would require a hearty time commitment from Penikett would n’t likely materialise until 2011 . As much as the latest wild net rumors are rather positive for Dollhouse ’s futurity , the show would have to make it all the way to a third time of year before there would be any potential conflict , and that ’s assuming Riverworld is successful enough to launch a serial publication . In any issue , this should n’t be taken as an meter reading that the Dollhouse cast of characters is already looking for other work .
So , for now , it ’s good to take this intelligence at boldness value – that Tahmoh Penikett continue to get roles that he richly deserve . It only make sense that you ’d need a veteran of Battlestar Galactica to replace Battlestar Galactica .
[ ‘ Battlestar ’ actor to asterisk in ‘ Riverworld ’ ]
[ Sci Fi Holy Order ‘ Phantom , ’ ‘ Riverworld , ’ ‘ Alice ’ ]
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