Update: Deadline Hollywood reports Kevin Alejandro (Arrow’s Starling City Mayor Sebastian Blood) will be back in Vancouver as Sheriff Tommy Moran on The Returned. Mark Pellegrino (Lost, Supernatural, The Tomorrow People) is cast as Jack, the father of twin girls, one of whom returns four years after having died in a school bus crash as a 16-year-old. India Ennenga is Camille, who hasn’t aged since her death. Sophie Lowe (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland’s Alice) is Lena, now four years older than her twin sister. Tandi Wright is Jack’s estranged wife Claire and mother to Lena and the returned Camille. And Jeremy Sisto (Suburgatory, Six Feet Under) is the psychologist who runs a grief support group for people who lost loved ones in the bus accident. Mat Vairo (Revolution) is Simon, a musician who comes back 10 years after his death, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead is his girlfriend Rowan. Sandrine Holt is Julie, a doctor struggling in her personal life, and Agnes Bruckner is the Sheriff’s deputy. Leah Gibson (Rogue) is Lucy, a free spirit who works as a waitress at The Dog Star Tavern and Rhys Ward (The 100, The Strain) is Adam, an expert hunter with a dark nature and past he’s trying to overcome.
Carlton Cuse’s American adaption of acclaimed French series The Returned (Les Revenants) for A&E is expected to start filming in the Vancouver area on [Update: June 16th]. What is it about? In the French series, broadcast on the Sundance Channel in the U.S. and Space Channel in Canada, a group of people return to their homes in a small mountain town, only to discover they have been dead for several years and no one is expecting them to show up. As the back-from-the-dead struggle to reintegrate with their families and past loves, it stirs up secrets and creates new mysteries. Meanwhile, their resurrection coincides with a series of gruesome murders. Has a serial killer returned too?
Secrets. Serial killer. Sinister Reality. It sounds like another perfect fit for Vancouver’s X-Files creepiness, just like Carlton Cuse’s other A&E series Bates Motel, which starts filming a third season here in October after The Returned wraps.
A&E’s ten-episode The Returned is not related to ABC’s back-from-the-dead series Resurrection.