{"id":68086,"date":"2014-11-06T10:08:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T10:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=68086"},"modified":"2014-11-06T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T10:09:19","slug":"outcast-tv-show-casts-its-star-and-gets-a-hell-of-a-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/outcast-tv-show-casts-its-star-and-gets-a-hell-of-a-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Outcast TV show casts its star and gets a hell of a director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/outcast.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68088\" alt=\"outcast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/outcast.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/outcast.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/outcast-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a>The upcoming Cinemax TV show based on Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta&#x2019;s <strong><em>Outcast<\/em><\/strong> has cast its leading man and found a director for the pilot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Patrick-Fugit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68089\" alt=\"Patrick Fugit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Patrick-Fugit.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Patrick-Fugit.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Patrick-Fugit-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a>Deadline reports that Patrick Fugit (<strong><em>Almost Famous<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Gone Girl<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Wristcutters: A Love Story<\/em><\/strong>) will star as &#x201C;Kyle Barnes, a young man who&#x2019;s been plagued by possession since he was a child. He sets out to seek answers, only to uncover something that could end all life on Earth as we know it.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>He&#x2019;s joined by Gene Hunt himself,&#xA0;<strong><em>Life On Mars<\/em><\/strong> star Philip Glenister, who&#x2019;ll play &#x201C;Reverend Anderson, a hard drinking, hard gambling West Virginian evangelical preacher who believes he&#x2019;s a soldier in God&#x2019;s holy war against evil.&#x201D; <strong><em>Annabelle<\/em><\/strong> star Gabriel Bateman has been cast as &#x201C;8-year-old Joshua Austin, a young boy who lives across town who appears to be possessed by a demon and has a mysterious connection to Kyle.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>The pilot will be directed by Adam Wingard, the man behind <strong>SciFiNow<\/strong> favourites <strong><em>A Horrible Way To Die<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>You&#x2019;re Next<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>The Gues<\/em><em>t<\/em><\/strong>. This is a very exciting team that&#x2019;s been brought together for this supernatural horror. We&#x2019;ll be keeping close tabs on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Outcast-Kirkman-Azaceta-Paul\/dp\/1632150530\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415268430&sr=8-1&keywords=outcast+robert+kirkman&tag=scifinowmag-21\">pre-order the first volume of <em>Outcast<\/em> for &#xA3;7.50 at Amazon.co.uk<\/a>. For more genre TV news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3205\/s\/scifinow-issue-99\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&utm_medium=cover&utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">check out the latest issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta&#8217;s Outcast TV series locks in Gone Girl star and horror veteran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":68088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[3018,4158],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/outcast.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}