EXCLUSIVE: Dan Fogler (The Supply) has been set as a collection common within the USA Community‘s new drama collection The Rainmaker, primarily based on the John Grisham novel of the identical identify.
From showrunner and govt producer Michael Seitzman, the Lionsgate and Blumhouse collection follows Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) who, recent out of legislation faculty, goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond (John Slattery) and his legislation faculty girlfriend Sarah Plankmore (Madison Iseman). Rudy, alongside together with his boss (Lana Parrilla) and her matted paralegal, uncover two related conspiracies surrounding the mysterious dying of their shopper’s son.
Fogler will play Melvin Pritcher, a nurse with an explosive secret on the coronary heart of an enormous conspiracy.
The beforehand introduced solid additionally consists of P.J. Byrne within the position of Deck Shifflet, a no-filter, shoot-from-the-hip legislation faculty grad who failed the bar seven instances. He now operates as an unsentimental “paralawyer” at J. Lyman Stone; and Robyn Cara as Kelly Riker, a lonely younger girl trapped in an abusive marriage who befriends her neighbor, Rudy.
The Rainmaker acquired a collection order from the NBCUniversal cable community in June, capping a six-year journey by Seitzman to deliver the e book to TV. Seitzman and Jason Richman wrote the pilot script, with Seitzman serving as showrunner on the collection. The 2 are govt producing with Grisham, Jason Blum and David Gernert.
Tony Award-winning actor Fogler is thought on TV for his work in The Supply for Paramount+, AMC’s The Strolling Useless, ABC’s The Goldbergs and the current Netflix miniseries Eric. On movie, Fogler just lately completed manufacturing on A Full Unknown and Verona’s Romeo + Juliet. His different credit embody Improbable Beasts and The place to Discover Them, in addition to the movie’s two followups, Spinning Gold, Taking Woodstock, Take Me Dwelling Tonight, Balls of Fury and Fanboys.
He’s repped by Verve, Rogue Administration, Leisure 360 and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
