Dollhouse, Smallville Actors Cast in Pilots

Dollhouse star Tahmoh Penikett (also of Battlestar Galactica) and Smallville’s Laura Vandervoort have both been cast in the new SCI FI Channel movie Riverworld. Based on the novels by Philip Jose Farmer, Penikett plays Matt Ellman, an American war zone reporter who, along with his fiancée Jessie (Vandervoort) awakens in a mysterious world after being killed by a suicide bomber.

Matt joins forces with a 13th century female samurai warrior named Tomoe (Jeananne Goossen) and American novelist Sam ‘Mark Twain’ Clemens (Mark Deklin). Together they sail upriver in search of its source, and to discover where they are and who put them there. Alan Cumming (Tin Man) guest stars as the mysterious  ‘Caretaker.’ Riverworld.

The movie recently went into production in Vancouver and is expected to air in 2010.

Ryan Carnes (Dr. Who) has been cast in title role of The Phantom and his alter ego Chris Walker in this re-imagined version of the classic comic book transported to present day. Isabella Rossellini will guest star in a villainous turn as ‘Lithia,’ the head of an experimental mind control program. Also starring are Cameron Goodman as Chris Walker’s love interest, Renny and Sandrine Holt (24/The L Word) as The Phantom’s trusted advisor Guran.

The production is currently shooting in Montréal and is expected to air in 2010 on SCI FI (or SyFy) Channel.

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