Per Deadline, Syfy’s upcoming drama series adaptation, Revival, has added eight members to its regular cast. Production for the series, which is based on Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash) and Mike Norton’s (Battlepug) Image Comics comic book series, recently wrapped in New Brunswick, Canada.
According to Deadline, Gia Sandhu (Tracker, Rosie’s Rules), Katharine King So (The Umbrella Academy, Transplant), Maia Jae Bastidas (High Potential, Beyond Black Beauty), Nathan Dales (Littlekenny, The Indian Detective), Mark Little (Ghosts, Doomlands), Glen Gould (Tulsa King, Fire Country), Lara Jean Chorostecki (Chucky, The Good Doctor) and Conrad Coates (Locked in My House, Fargo) will be joining previously announced series regulars Melanie Scrofano (Letterkenny, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Romy Weltman (The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh, The Plot to Kill My Mother), David James Elliot (Heels, Call Me Kat) and Andy McQueen (Mrs. Davis, Outer Banks).
Deadline describes Revival as being set “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, portrayed by 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 will play Nithiya Weimar, a seasoned psychologist fighting Stage 4 cancer. King So will portray May Tao, a local journalist with a distrust of the Wausau Police and big secrets of her own. Bastidas will play Kay, Em’s nosy college roommate with a penchant for getting high and into trouble. Dales will play Deputy McCray, the obnoxious head of the local Drug Task Force. Little will portray Deputy Brent, Dana’s closest confidant on the force; he is the quirky, sweet-hearted lead bowler of the Pinsconsin Pride.
Gould will play 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 chaos. Chorostecki will play Patty Cypress, the deceased mother of Em and Dana and the late wife of Wayne Cypress; she is the glue that held the Cypress family together. Coates will portray 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, a co-production between Blue Ice Pictures and Hemmings Films, is created by Aaron B. Koontz (Rad Chad’s Rad Recommendations, Tales from the Void) and Luke Boyce (Seeds, Discover Indie Film), who will together showrun and executive produce. Scrofano, Lance Samuels (SurrealEstate, Ginny & Georgia), Daniel Iron (Astrid & Lilly Save the World, Letters to Satan Claus), Samantha Levine (A New Diva’s Christmas Carol, All I Didn’t Want for Christmas), Daniel March (Harry Wild, Karantina), Greg Hemmings (Race Against the Tide, Our Community) and Stephen Foster (Cubicle to the Cage, Kardinal Sinners) will also executive produce.
Koontz and Boyce have delivered an effusive joint statement for the project. “Getting this show off the ground has been a dream come true, 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 represented 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 represented by Play Management, Heroes and Villains Entertainment, Griffin Talent and Myman Greenspan Fineman Fox Rosenberg & Light; Gould by Darryl Mork Talent Mgmt.