You go, Jan Levinson! This and the Hannah Montana movie - Melora Hardin's on a roll. This show sounds really cool, and also stars one of our absolute favorite character actors...
Melora Hardin of "The Office" is moving to cable, landing the
female lead opposite Holt McCallany on FX's drama pilot "Lights
Out."
Elias Koteas and Kevin Conway also have been tapped as leads on the
pilot from Fox TV Studios and FX Prods.
Penned by Justin Zackham, "Lights Out" centers on Patrick "Lights
Out" Leary (McCallany), an aging former heavyweight boxing champion
who struggles to find his identity and support his wife (Hardin), a
pediatric orthopedic surgeon, and three daughters after his
fighting days are over.
That leads him to take a job as a legbreaker, collecting on unpaid
gambling debts. He is diagnosed with pugilistic dementia (a
neurological disorder that affects boxers who receive multiple
blows to the head), so he decides he'll need to make another big
payday to support himself and his family before his brain turns to
jelly.
Conway will play Lights' father and former trainer, a widower who
still runs a gym. Koteas will play Lights' boyhood friend who is
his manager/business partner.
Elias Koteas! Duncan from Some Kind Of Wonderful! And since then, maybe our favorite "creepy guy" actor! Yes, plot a lot like The Wrestler. But we loved The Wrestler! Plus, we love Melora Hardin, Elias Koteas, and fictional legbreakers! (We are less fond of real legbreakers.) We're watching.
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