'Dexter' Cop Joins TNT Western Pilot 'Gateway'

Getty ImagesKeith Carradine Keith Carradine is certainly going from hunting the Trinity Killer on Showtime's Dexter towards the Wild West. The veteran actor is joining the cast from the TNT pilot Gateway, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The publish-Civil War era Western involves three siblings who part of in order to save their town when their father, the city sheriff, is killed. Carradine will have Frank Saar, a tired homesteader, worn lower through the struggles from the west, that has a lasting limp. STORY: 'Twilight's Cam Gigandet Joins TNT Western 'Gateway' He joins Cam Gigandet, who'll play Mike, a youthful, untamed hard-living cowboy who brings together the Wild West and something of Sam's three siblings who have to seek justice and avenge their father's dying against a corrupt cattle baron with track of making the city their own. Carradine's role will be a series regular if the pilot be acquired. His character thinks that Mike went too tight a spead boat which his practice of confiscating weapons from honest people assisted get him wiped out. Frank is thrust in to the role of the father figure towards the late sheriff's three sons. Additionally, he courted Sam's wife Eliza but still has a torch on her. Carradine, whose credits likewise incorporate instances of The Large Bang Theory, Damages and Doll house, has additionally were built with a prolific film career, most lately showing up in Cowboys & Aliens. Gateway would also mark his go back to the Western after getting performed Wild Bill Hickock on Deadwood. He's repped by Innovative Artists, John Bauer Management and Weismann, Wolff. STORY: TNT Orders 1880s Western 'Gateway' to Pilot The experience adventure project, from Warner Horizon Television, is occur the 1880s in a tiny Colorado town known as Gateway and was purchased to pilot recently. The Pacific's Bruce C. McKenna will executive produce alongside CSI's Danny Cannon, who'll direct the pilot. If the project get the series pickup, it'll join Rizzoli & Isles, The Closer, rookie cleaning soap Dallas and Falling Skies around the network's drama selection. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit Dexter TNT TV Development Pilot Season 2011-12