Julie Benz Will get Female Lead In Syfy Series Defiance, Pilot Rewind Casts First Actor

EXCLUSIVE: Dexter alumna Julie Benz will star opposite Grant Bowler Bowler within the Syfy series Defiance. Tony Curran (Support beams Of The World), Jamie Murray and Stephanie Leonidas also provide been cast within the live-action drama, written/executive created by Farscape creator Rockne S. OBannon, that was developed at the same time by having an movie game. Set on the future Earth, Defiance is occur a global where humans and aliens live together on the planet ravaged by decades of war and changed by alien terra-developing machines. It focuses on Jeb Nolan (Bowler), what the law states-keeper inside a busy frontier boomtown that's among the new mobile phone industry's couple of oasis of calmness and inclusion. Benz, repped by ICM and Vincent Cirrincione, will have Amanda Rosewater, the idealistic recently hired mayor from the mining boomtown who's going to maintain peace locally. Leonidas will have Irisa, an attractive warrior who's a part of an alien race known as the Irathients. After Nolan wiped out her criminal father, he adopted the lady and elevated her as his clever and lethal right-hands. Curran, repped by Domain and Sanders/Arstrong/Caserta, will have Datak Tarr, part of another elite alien race referred to as Castithans who schemed his way to avoid it of his home planet prior to being destroyed. Murray, repped by Sanders/Arstrong/Caserta, will have Dataks beautiful and proper wife. Scott Stewart (Legion) will direct Defiance, slated to start production in April in Toronto. Kevin Murphy will executive produce. Benz just wrapped the indie Supremacy. Shane McRae may be the first actor cast in Syfys two-hour pilot Rewind, from BermanBraun and Universal Cable Prods.Compiled by Justin Marks and directed by Jack Bender, Rewind involves a team of military area agents and civilian researchers who must use untested technology to visit in time for you to alter past occasions to be able to alter the future and steer clear of a devastating terrorist attack. McRae, repped by Gersh and TMT Entertainment, will have Henry Knox,ex-Special Forces who now ranks like a area operative inside a special division from the Department of Homeland Security.Rewind can also be set to start production in April.