Mireille Enos, star of AMC’s The Killing may join Brad Pitt in the Marc Foster Directed World War Z novel adaptation. Production continues to roll on the highly anticipated zombie adaptation with the recent talks to add Enos to the cast.
I don’t know if you have seen the The Killing yet, AMC’s dramatic series follow up to the Walking Dead. AMC has got me good over the past year, in the Rubicon, the Walking Dead, and now they’re Killing me. And I am happy to report, it’s pretty good. If you enjoy a good murder/detective series, something like Law and Order: CI or The Mentalist, but a little more sophisticated and detailed like The Wire, you will probably get pulled into The Killing.
Beside being a good show, well written and decent story arc, there is something else very good about The Killing, and it is pretty obvious. The star of the show, the lead detective, is a really good actress. I mean she is killing it. The show can drag a bit in the emotional, but it is worth checking out Mireille Enos in the Killing. Check out the report from the Hollywood Reporter below for more on the World War Z movie and the casting of The Killing's star...
From the Hollywood Reporter:
Mireille Enos, the star of AMC’s The Killing, is making the leap into features, nabbing the role of Brad Pitt’s wife in World War Z, Paramount’s adaptation of Max Brooks’ globe-spanning zombie novel.
Marc Forster is directing the big-budget movie while Pitt and his Plan B shingle are producing.
The novel is set 10 years after a global zombie epidemic, and is an oral history told from many perspectives around the world. J. Michael Straczynski and Matt Carnahan wrote the script.
Pitt is playing a U.N. worker. Enos would play his wife, a mother of two girls.
The movie is scheduled to begin shooting in June in London, Malta and other locales around the world.
Enos, repped by Innovative and Authentic Talent, plays the taciturn detective Sarah Linden in The Killing, the American remake of a Danish TV series, which is being showered with accolades. Being cast in the show was a major breakthrough for Enos, who up until then had a run on HBO’s Big Love and a slew of TV appearances ranging from Sex and the City to Medium.
The Killing was AMC’s second highest-rated premiere behind only The Walking Dead, which will be returning for a second season. Five episodes of the drama have aired so far. With the casting of Enos, it seems the folks at Paramount and Plan B have been tuning in."