EXCLUSIVE: Revival, Syfy‘s upcoming drama series adaptation, based on Tim Seeley and Mike Norton’s Image comic book series, has added eight to its cast in recurring roles. Gia Sandhu (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Katherine King So (The Voyeurs), Maia Jae Bastidas (Gen V), Nathan Dales (Letterkenny), Mark Little (Mr. D), Glen Gould (Tulsa King), Lara Jean Chorostecki (Hannibal), and Conrad Coates (Fargo) join previously announced series regulars Melanie Scrofano, Romy Weltman, David James Elliot, and Andy McQueen. Production recently wrapped in New Brunswick, Canada.
In Revival, on one miraculous day in rural Wisconsin, the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. But this is no zombie story as the “revived” appear and act just like they once were. When local Officer and single mother Dana Cypress (Scrofano) is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she’s left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect.
Sandhu plays Nithiya Weimar, a seasoned psychologist fighting Stage 4 cancer. King So portrays May Tao, a local journalist with a healthy distrust of the Wausau Police who harbors big secrets of her own. Bastidas is Kay, Em’s opinionated college roommate with a penchant for getting high and getting into trouble. Dales plays Deputy McCray, the obnoxious, abrasive head of the local Drug Task Force. Little portrays Deputy Brent, Dana’s closest confidant on the force. Quirky, sweet hearted and the lead bowler of the Pinsconsin Pride. Gould is Deputy JP Brissett, second in command under Wayne Cypress, a sheriff’s deputy who is one of the few that can keep a level head within the chaos following Revival Day. Chorostecki plays Patty Cypress, deceased mother of Em and Dana and the late wife of Wayne Cypress. The glue that held the Cypress family together. Coates is Mayor Dillisch, Wausau’s Mayor who despite his best efforts is thrown into the center of the Revival Day mystery and is constantly at odds with the Sheriff.
Revival, produced by Blue Ice Pictures and Hemmings Films, is created by Aaron B. Koontz and Luke Boyce, who serve as showrunners and executive producers. Lance Samuels, Daniel Iron, Samantha Levine, Daniel March, Melanie Scrofano, Greg Hemmings & Stephen Foster also serve as executive producers.
“Getting this show off the ground has been a dream come true,” said showrunners Koontz and Boyce in a joint statement, “but even in those dreams we never could have imagined assembling a more talented and dedicated cast to breathe life into these characters. This ensemble is special.”
Chorostecki is repped by GGA and Citizen Skull Management; Sandhu by The Characters Talent Agency; Coates by RED Management and Zero Gravity Management; Bastidas by The Characters Talent Agency, Lauren Levitt & Associates, Insight Entertainment and The Kohner Agency; Dales by Barb Godfrey at The Arthur Agency; King So by Play Management. Little is repped by Play Management, Heroes and Villains Entertainment, Griffin Talent and Myman Greenspan Fineman Fox Rosenberg & Light; Gould by Darryl Mork Talent Mgmt.
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