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Hilary Swank & Jeff Perry to Film ABC’s Alaska Pilot in Vancouver

Hilary Swank & Jeff Perry to Film ABC’s Alaska Pilot in Vancouver

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Away’s Hilary Swank and Scandal’s Jeff Perry are filming an ABC pilot set in Alaska this Fall in Vancouver from Spotlight and Stillwater director Tom McCarthy.

Filming dates: October 18th to November 5th.

Eileen (Hilary Swank) is a star journalist who moves to Alaska for a fresh start after a career-killing misstep and finds redemption personally and professionally joining a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage.

Stanley (Jeff Perry) is the editor in Anchorage who offers her Eileen the job, having worked with her 20 years ago at a metro daily in the lower 48.

Cast: Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry.

Writer/Director: Tom McCarthy

Production Company: Anchorage Daily News Productions Ltd.

Producers: Tom McCarthy’s Slow Pony Productions, Fox 21 Television Studios, Hilary Swank.

Oscar winner Hilary Swank last filmed in Vancouver as astronaut Emma Green in Netflix’s Away series.