'Lost' star Elizabeth Mitchell joins new JJ Abrams drama 'Revolution'
Published Jun 30 2012, 23:46 BST | By Paul Martinovic
Elizabeth Mitchell has joined the cast of JJ Abrams's new NBC drama Revolution.Mitchell, best known to viewers as Dr Juliet Burke from Abrams's hugely successful Lost, has signed on as a series regular for the new sci-fi series, which was recently greenlit by the network.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Revolution is set in a world where every piece of technology, including cars, computers, phones and lights, has suddenly stopped working forever. The show follows a family as they attempt to reunite and navigate their way through this post-apocalyptic dystopia.
Mitchell will play Rachel Matheson, a terrified mother of two children. She takes over the role from Andrea Roth, who played Rachel in the original pilot.
Revolution will also feature Twilight's Billy Burke and Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito in key roles, and will be directed by Iron Man helmer Jon Favreau.
This will mark Mitchell's first recurring role in a television series since ABC's V reboot was cancelled in 2011, after playing Juliet on Lost for four seasons.
Watch the trailer for Revolution below:
I'm guessing EMP pulse... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMP_Pulse
July 2nd 2012 at 8:30am
This could end up like flash forward :/ great idea, not enough viewers. Hopefully it gets what it deserves though and excels and stays on TV
July 2nd 2012 at 8:03am
What a CROCK of a premise! What turned off?? The Earth's magnetic field?? The Sun?? (no there's still sun shine) .... so what would turn off that could possibly interrupt electrically generation or operation? Well PHYSICS and Geophysics agrees with NEITHER! (go look it up for yourself!) The Earth's magnetic field CAN'T just turn off because it is a naturally generating force from the spinning Earth's molten Iron / Nickle Core, which can't just stop! Besides if the core stopped and Magnetosphere disappeared by consequence, Solar Radiation would FRY EVER LIVING THING ON EARTH to a depth of 10 miles within hours! This shows premise is pure bullchit.
July 1st 2012 at 10:18pm(+1 like)
Good thing that it's fiction then.
Something tells me sci-fi and fantasy aren't aiming for realism and real scientific accuracy. Chill out.
July 1st 2012 at 10:43pm
It's not far fetched at all - a single nuclear bomb detontated in the atmosphere has the potential to fry everything with a micro chip from horizon to horizon - this would include every car made after 1980 and practically all our house hold items and technology - its called Asymemetric Warfare - levelling the playing field - the downside is that the country responsible gets turned to glass by assets held outside the country targetted. Take a look at EMP Pulse or the novel One Second After... ask yourself why North Korea is so desperate to get a single satellite in orbit... course, it is just sci fi - in Patrick Tilley's 1975 novel, FADE OUT aliens killed all our technology cos we were getting a bit too big for our boots, and then there's The Day the Earth Stood Still... might be any of them...
July 2nd 2012 at 8:39am
Will give it a look, let's hope it doesn't get cancelled like Alcatraz! I liked that show.!
July 1st 2012 at 9:42pm(+1 like)
She was like a robot in V. Hope gets rid of her poker face.
July 1st 2012 at 8:39pm