Coster-Waldau is Out of This World

New Amsterdam star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has signed on as mission commander of the very first Earth starship in the backdoor pilot for Fox called “Virtuality.”

The story revolves around the crew of the Phaeton, a starship that leaves Earth on a 10-year mission. The ship has been equipped with state-of-the-art virtual reality modules that allow the crew to be whatever they want to be to stave off boredom in space.  (Holodeck, anyone?) One problem, there’s a bug in the system and well. . . thus a weekly series is born.

The pilot was written by Ron Moore and Michael Taylor and will be directed by Peter Berg.