EXCLUSIVE: Dan Fogler (The Provide) has been set as a sequence common within the USA Community‘s new drama sequence The Rainmaker, primarily based on the John Grisham novel of the identical title.
From showrunner and government producer Michael Seitzman, the Lionsgate and Blumhouse sequence follows Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) who, contemporary out of regulation college, goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond (John Slattery) and his regulation college girlfriend Sarah Plankmore (Madison Iseman). Rudy, alongside along with his boss (Lana Parrilla) and her raveled paralegal, uncover two related conspiracies surrounding the mysterious demise of their consumer’s son.
Fogler will play Melvin Pritcher, a nurse with an explosive secret on the coronary heart of an enormous conspiracy.
The beforehand introduced forged additionally consists of P.J. Byrne within the position of Deck Shifflet, a no-filter, shoot-from-the-hip regulation college grad who failed the bar seven occasions. He now operates as an unsentimental “paralawyer” at J. Lyman Stone; and Robyn Cara as Kelly Riker, a lonely younger lady trapped in an abusive marriage who befriends her neighbor, Rudy.
The Rainmaker acquired a sequence order from the NBCUniversal cable community in June, capping a six-year journey by Seitzman to convey the e book to TV. Seitzman and Jason Richman wrote the pilot script, with Seitzman serving as showrunner on the sequence. The 2 are government producing with Grisham, Jason Blum and David Gernert.
Tony Award-winning actor Fogler is thought on TV for his work in The Provide for Paramount+, AMC’s The Strolling Lifeless, ABC’s The Goldbergs and the current Netflix miniseries Eric. On movie, Fogler not too long ago completed manufacturing on A Full Unknown and Verona’s Romeo + Juliet. His different credit embrace Improbable Beasts and The place to Discover Them, in addition to the movie’s two followups, Spinning Gold, Taking Woodstock, Take Me House Tonight, Balls of Fury and Fanboys.
He’s repped by Verve, Rogue Administration, Leisure 360 and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
