CBS Pilot THE NEVER GAME Starring Justin Hartley Rounds Out Cast in Vancouver
CBS pilot The Never Game starring This is Us’s Justin Hartley and Mary McDonnell rounds out its cast as it preps for filming in Vancouver this October.
Robin Weigert, Abby McEnany and Eric Graise join the cast.
Vancouver filming dates: Ocober 04 2022 – October 25 2022.
The Never Game follows Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley), who travels the country in his old school RV to help police and private citizens solve crimes and locate missing persons, until his latest case changes everything. This time, it’s personal! Shaw finds himself caught in a cat-and-mouse game, risking his own life to save the victims.
He soon learns that he isn’t the only one on the hunt: someone is on his trail and closing fast. Hartley’s Shaw is a reward seeker raised by survivalists off the grid. He and his siblings were schooled by their parents, former professors who fled the city for safety, and taught the rules of survival, or “The Never Game,” as their father called it before he was murdered.
Writer: Ben Winters.
Director: Ken Edward Olin.
Cast: Justin Hartley, Mary McDonnell, Robin Weigert, Abby y McEnany, Eric Graise.
Justin Hartley spent several seasons in Vancouver as Smallville’s Green Arrow,.
Mary McDonnell spent several seasons in Vancouver as Battlestar Galactica’s President Laura Roslin. She will play Colter’s mother Mary Dove Shaw, who raised her three children on the remote California compound where her husband took them before his mysterious death.
Robin Weigert will play former rock music touring manager Teddi Bruin, who is one half of the couple that runs Colter’s “back end”: seeking out new jobs, keeping track of the money, occasionally getting him sprung from jail.
Abby McEnany will Velma Bruin, the other half of the couple that runs Colter’s “back end” out of a spare room in their Florida home.
Eric Graise will play Colter’s resource and sparring partner Bob Exley, a computer scientist with a high-end boutique security company.
Adapted from the Jeffery Deaver thriller.
Producers: Changeup Productions, AfterPortsmouth Production, 20th Television.