Bill Pullman joins Torchwood
Bill Pullman joins John Barrowman and Eve Myles in the US season of Torchwood.
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In only his second major television series role, Bill Pullman (Ruthless People, Independence Day) has signed on to star in the upcoming fourth season of Torchwood as a regular.
Pullman, who joins series stars John Barrowman, Eve Myles and the just-cast Mekhi Phifer, will play Oswald Jones, a dangerously clever convicted murderer who escapes his lifelong prison sentence on a technicality and quickly becomes a media sensation. Genuinely repentant yet boiling with lust and rage, Oswald gets caught up in a terrifying worldwide crisis.
Torchwood‘s fourth season will air on the cable network Starz, in a co-production deal with BBC Worldwide Prods that includes Russell T. Davies. It is seen as an international extension of the UK series rather than a spin-off or remake.
Source: Deadline
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@AJ : Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. 🙂
@ Mac
The original casting description described the character of Oswald Jones as a murdering paedophile. It’s possible the paedophile aspect has since been dropped as it caused a minor uproar when it was first announced (although RTD isn’t one to listen to fan-panic).
Damn good tele!
(But I saw no mention of the character being unsavoury towards children in the story – where did that reference come from?).
Interesting…
This sounds like a good choice to me … really looking forward to this new season!
I’m still pretty concerned about how RTD will write a convicted paedophile character (since he’s not that great with characterisation or anything that doesn’t go “boom”), but with Pullman playing the role, there is at least a chance that adding a child-abusing murderer to the Torchwood team won’t turn out to be completely terrible.
Lone Starr!
Wow, I have to say I did not see this coming!! This is gonna be one great season of Torchwood!!