'Dexter' Cop Joins TNT Western Pilot 'Gateway'

Getty ImagesKeith Carradine Keith Carradine goes from hunting the Trinity Killer on Showtime's Dexter for the Wild West. The veteran actor is joining the cast in the TNT pilot Gateway, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The publish-Civil War era Western involves three brothers and sisters who a part of to be able to save their town when their father, the town sheriff, is wiped out. Carradine may have Frank Saar, a tired homesteader, worn lower with the struggles in the west, which has a lasting limp. STORY: 'Twilight's Cam Gigandet Joins TNT Western 'Gateway' He joins Cam Gigandet, who'll play Mike, a young, untamed hard-living cowboy who includes the Wild West then one of Sam's three brothers and sisters who've to find justice and avenge their father's dying against a corrupt cattle baron with tabs on making the town their very own. Carradine's role is a series regular when the pilot be acquired. His character thinks that Mike went too tight a spead boat which his practice of confiscating weapons from honest people aided get him destroyed. Frank is thrust into the role from the father figure for the late sheriff's three sons. Furthermore, he courted Sam's wife Eliza but nonetheless includes a torch on her behalf. Carradine, whose credits have cases of The Big Bang Theory, Damages and Toy house, has furthermore stood a prolific film career, most recently turning up in Cowboys & Aliens. Gateway would also mark his return to the Western after you have carried out 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 knowledge adventure project, from Warner Horizon Television, is occur the 1880s inside a small Colorado town referred to as Gateway and was bought to pilot lately. The Pacific's Bruce C. McKenna will executive produce alongside CSI's Danny Cannon, who'll direct the pilot. When the project obtain the series pickup, it'll join Rizzoli & Isles, The Closer, rookie cleaning cleaning soap Dallas and Falling Skies round the network's drama selection. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit Dexter TNT TV Development Pilot Season 2011-12