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CBS Begins Overhauling 'Harper's Island'

Elaine Cassidy may be the only actor kept from the original pilot

May 19, 2008

Elaine Cassidy
Elaine Cassidy
Is "Harper's Island" the new "Moonlight"?

Last spring, CBS picked up "Moonlight" based on a presentation and proceeded to hire a new showrunner and recast the entire pilot with the exception of leading man Alex O'Loughlin. Despite that overhauling, the vampire drama aired a full season on Friday nights before being cancelled.

Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, CBS is taking a similar approach to the midseason horror-serial "Harper's Island."

The trade paper says that Jeffrey Bell has been recruited to write a new first episode for the series, which focuses on a group of friends who go to a destination wedding on an island off the coast of Seattle and are picked off, one-by-one, by a serial killer.

The drama is expected to undergo near-total recasting, with Elaine Cassidy ("Felicia's Journey") the only actor expected to remain.

Ari Schlossberg wrote the original pilot and Jon Turteltaub directed. Turteltaub will remain on a executive producer along with Bell ("Alias," "Angel"), while Schlossberg, Karim Zriek and Dan Shotz will co-exec produce.

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