Former ER star Noah Wyle is reunited with the series’ executive producer Steven Spielberg.
Wyle has signed on for the lead in TNT’s as-yet-untitled alien-invasion pilot. Wyle will play the leader of a ragtag resistance group of soldiers and civilians battling against the occupying alien force.
Scripted by Academy Award-nominated Saving Private Ryan screenwriter Robert Rodat, and based on an idea co-conceived with Spielberg, the series takes place six months into an alien invasion that has brought mankind to its knees, wiping out most of the human population.
Spielberg joked to the Hollywood Reporter: “It is a privilege to be starting a second series with Noah – the first didn’t do too badly.”
Spielberg also executive-produced the 2002 alien-visitation mini-series Taken.
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