The Good Wife’s political career assassin still has that Killer Instinct
CBS ordered the pilot for the crime drama Killer Instinct, which will star The Good Wife's scheming gubernatorial chief of staff Alan Cumming, who will also act as executive producer. The series was previously called Dr. Death.
Killer Instinct is based on Dr. Death, the upcoming book by America's best-selling author James Patterson, who is executive producing with Alex Kurtzman and former Royal Pains executive producer/showrunner Michael Rauch, who will write the series.
“It’s great to imagine Alan in the role. There aren’t many stars who can convincingly play drama and comedy with effortless wit, not to mention a musical savant and crime-solving genius,” Patterson said.
Cumming, who earned three Emmy nominations for his role as Eli Gold on The Good Wife, will play a former CIA operative living a normal life as a writer and professor. He gets pulled back into crime-fighting when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer.
Cumming will next be seen in tennis biopic Battle Of The Sexes.
Patterson’s book Dr. Death, which he co-wrote with Howard Roughan, Killer Instinct is slated for release in June 2017 by Little, Brown & Co.
SOURCE: DEADLINE