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Cuba Gooding Jr. has landed the lead role in a Fox legal drama, playing a morally questionable defense attorney.
The Jerry McGuire and Red Tails actor will star as William “Billy” Remz in Guilty. He’s a lawyer falsely convicted of fraud and stripped of his legal license. He then uses unorthodox methods to solve the cases he’s been prohibited from handling and exacts revenge on those who set him up.
Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, McG, and Peter Johnson are executive producing the Warner Bros. project with Guggenheim (FlashForward) writing the pilot.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. has landed the lead role in a Fox legal drama, playing a morally questionable defense attorney.
The Jerry McGuire and Red Tails actor will star as William “Billy” Remz in Guilty. He’s a lawyer falsely convicted of fraud and stripped of his legal license. He then uses unorthodox methods to solve the cases he’s been prohibited from handling and exacts revenge on those who set him up.
Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, McG, and Peter Johnson are executive producing the Warner Bros. project with Guggenheim (FlashForward) writing the pilot.
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- 2/28/2012
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Cuba Gooding Jr has signed on for a new Fox legal drama called Guilty. The Oscar winner will play the lead in the drama, which is about a morally ambiguous attorney who is stripped of his license after being framed, Deadline reports. Gooding Jr's character will use irregular methods to solve cases and to clear his name. The pilot has been written and will be directed by Marc Guggeinheim, who is also executive producing with Greg Berlanti, McG, and Peter Johnson. This will be 44-year-old (more)...
- 2/28/2012
- by By Zeba Blay
- Digital Spy
In what would be his first series-regular gig, Cuba Gooding Jr is set as the lead in Fox’s legal drama pilot Guilty, from Marc Guggenheim and Greg Berlanti. The project, written by Guggenheim and to be directed by McG, centers on William “Billy” Remz (Gooding), a brilliant, morally questionable defense attorney who, after being falsely convicted of fraud and stripped of his legal license, uses his unorthodox methods to solve the cases he’s been prohibited from handling … and to exact revenge on those who set him up. Guggenheim, Berlanti, McG and Peter Johnson executive produce the pilot for Warner Bros TV. While broadcast networks very rarely cast black actors as the leads of drama series, this pilot season we have two such projects – Guilty and ABC’s Last Resort, toplined by Andre Braugher. Additionally, Kerry Washington plays the lead in ABC’s upcoming midseason drama series Scandal. Gooding Jr,...
- 2/28/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
On Wednesday's Fox and Friends, anchor Steve Doocy talked with Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson, Jr. about “Occupy the Caucus”, targeting Republican candidates in Des Moines in the run-up to the caucus. "The circus has come to town!" Johnson exclaimed. "Perhaps this is a cultural occasion in America, we've had hobos, we've had tramps, we've had bums, we've had hippies, we've had yippies, perhaps we'll look back on this in in a nostalgic way." It wasn't clear if Johnson was making a Cher reference.
- 12/28/2011
- by James Crugnale
- Mediaite - TV
Hoo boy. Today on Fox and Friends, the gang discussed how Casey Anthony's attorney Cheney Mason "blasted" the media for its criticism of Anthony, bringing on Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson, Jr. to weigh in. "Peter, media assassination, incompetent people on TV... Is he talking about Nancy Grace?" asked host Steve Doocy, casually wearing a hat made of T-bone steaks whilst pacing before a panther.
- 7/6/2011
- by Alex Alvarez
- Mediaite - TV
Fox has greenlighted Skyler's Revolution, a comedy/reality pilot presentation starring comedian Skyler Stone.
In pilot-casting news, Lucy Liu has been tapped to star in ABC's one-hour pilot Cashmere Mafia, while James Brolin has signed on to star in ABC's untitled Rina Mimoun drama pilot.
Additionally, Aimee Garcia and Paul Campbell have been added to Fox's comedy pilot Action News, Jessalyn Gilsig has joined Fox's drama pilot The Apostles, Kathleen Rose Perkins has been added to ABC's untitled Victoria Pile comedy pilot, Kym Whitley has joined ABC's untitled Sachs/Judah comedy pilot, and Eddie Matos has come aboard CBS' untitled Cynthia Cidre drama pilot.
Revolution, from Warner Horizon TV and McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision, is described as a comedy/prank hybrid in the vein of MTV's Punk'd. Stone created the show and is executive producing with McG and Trip Taylor. Peter Johnson is co-executive producing.
Stone, who starred in Con, his own series on Comedy Central, is repped by Paradigm and Mosaic Media Group. Wonderland is repped by Endeavor.
In pilot-casting news, Lucy Liu has been tapped to star in ABC's one-hour pilot Cashmere Mafia, while James Brolin has signed on to star in ABC's untitled Rina Mimoun drama pilot.
Additionally, Aimee Garcia and Paul Campbell have been added to Fox's comedy pilot Action News, Jessalyn Gilsig has joined Fox's drama pilot The Apostles, Kathleen Rose Perkins has been added to ABC's untitled Victoria Pile comedy pilot, Kym Whitley has joined ABC's untitled Sachs/Judah comedy pilot, and Eddie Matos has come aboard CBS' untitled Cynthia Cidre drama pilot.
Revolution, from Warner Horizon TV and McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision, is described as a comedy/prank hybrid in the vein of MTV's Punk'd. Stone created the show and is executive producing with McG and Trip Taylor. Peter Johnson is co-executive producing.
Stone, who starred in Con, his own series on Comedy Central, is repped by Paradigm and Mosaic Media Group. Wonderland is repped by Endeavor.
- 2/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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