Cuba Gooding Junior. To Star In Fox Pilot Guilty

With what is his first series-regular gig, Oscar champion Cuba Gooding Junior is positioned since the lead in Fox’s legal drama pilot Guilty, from Marc Guggenheim and Greg Berlanti. The project, put together by Guggenheim also to be directed by Micrograms, concentrates on William Billy Remz (Gooding), a great, morally questionable defense attorney who, after being wrongly billed of fraud and removed of his legal license, uses his unorthodox strategies to resolve the events hes been prohibited from handling also to exact revenge on people who set him up. Guggenheim, Berlanti, Micrograms and Peter Manley executive result in the pilot for Warner Bros TV. While broadcast systems seldom cast black stars since the leads of drama series, this pilot season we have two such projects –Guilty and ABC’s Final Option, toplined by Andre Braugher. In addition, Kerry Washington plays charge in ABC’s approaching midseason drama series Scandal. Gooding Junior, most broadly noted for his Oscar-winning submit Jerry Maguire, recently co-starred in George Lucas’ Red-colored-colored Tails.