alex kurtzman

Acclaimed director Anthony Fuqua is on board to helm the pilot. You may remember he directed Ethan Hawke in his Oscar nominated turn in Training Day, and here, he will star as the main character

When the world finally becomes a just place everyone will know the name Mark Duplass. The actor and director has been inching his way up the ranks of mainstream culture in the last few years

Though the original book is set in the 70s, apparently they're leaning toward setting the film in the present-- after all, The Wire has only made the setting of inner city Baltimore

The plot description sounds far more like a Sundance indie than the usual Kurtzman/Orci efforts like Eagle Eye and Transformers, and Vulture says Kurtzman specifically wanted the job