Among the series pickups that NBC announced recently is The Cape, which stars David Lyons and follows an honest cop working in a corrupt police force.
Lyons is no stranger to NBC as he played a starring role in ER in the series later seasons. This new show sounds like a cop-drama with a twist as Lyons’ character Vince Faraday is accused of a crime and inevitably trades his badge for a cape in an effort to right some wrongs.
NBC didn’t specify in their release of this information but if this fall lineup is correct, it seems The Cape won’t be premiering until 2011.
Below is NBC’s description for the series.
The Cape is a one-hour drama series starring David Lyons (ER) as Vince Faraday, an honest cop on a corrupt police force, who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed dead. He is forced into hiding, leaving behind his wife, Dana (Jennifer Ferrin, Life on Mars) and son, Trip (Ryan Wynott, Flash Forward). Fueled by a desire to reunite with his family and to battle the criminal forces that have overtaken Palm City, Faraday becomes The Cape his son's favorite comic book superhero -- and takes the law into his own hands. Rounding out the cast are James Frain (The Tudors) as billionaire Peter Fleming - The Cape's nemesis - who moonlights as the twisted killer: Chess; Keith David (Death at a Funeral) as Max Malini, the ringleader of a circus gang of bank robbers who mentors Vince Faraday and trains him to be The Cape; Summer Glau (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) as Orwell, an investigative blogger who wages war on crime and corruption in Palm City; and Dorian Missick (Six Degrees) as Marty Voyt, a former police detective and friend to Faraday.The Cape is a Universal Media Studios and BermanBraun production from executive producer/creator Thomas Wheeler (Empire), executive producer/director Simon West (Con Air), the executive producing team of Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun (Mercy) and executive producer Gene Stein (Accidentally on Purpose).
