Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Fox Locks Up Abrams' "Alcatraz"

Sneak Peek a new promo, supporting the upcoming Vancouver-lensed, Fox TV series, "Alcatraz", debuting on the network in 2012, executive produced by J.J. Abrams and Elizabeth Sarnoff, starring Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia, Sam Neill, Parminder Nagra, Robert Forster, Santiago Cabrera and Jonny Coyne :

"...when San Francisco Police Department 'Detective Rebecca Madsen' (Jones) is assigned to a homicide case, a fingerprint leads her to 'Jack Sylvane' (Jeffrey Pierce), a former 'Alcatraz' prison inmate who died decades ago.Given her family history – both her grandfather and surrogate uncle, 'Ray Archer' (Forster), were guards at the prison – Madsen's interest is immediately piqued, and once government agent 'Emerson Hause' (Neill) tries to impede her investigation, she's doggedly committed. Madsen turns to Alcatraz expert and comic book enthusiast, 'Dr. Diego Soto' (Garcia), to piece together the inexplicable sequence of events. The twosome discovers that Sylvane is not only alive, but he’s loose on the streets of San Francisco.

"And strangely, he hasn't aged a day since he was in Alcatraz, when the prison was ruled by 'Warden Edwin James' (Coyne) and 'Associate Warden E.B. Tiller' (Jason Butler Harner)..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Alcatraz"...