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Bring on the Quirky, Pretty Boys

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (18)

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Details are coming in on the pilot for Alan Ball’s next series for HBO, All Signs of Death, loosely based on Charlie Huston’s crime noir The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. Huston is penning the pilot script and the storyline description practically screams for a pretty, quirky boy:

“With his teaching career derailed by tragedy and his slacker days numbered, Webster Fillmore Goodhue makes an unlikely move and joins Clean Team, charged with tidying up L.A.’s grisly crime scenes. For Web, it’s a steady gig, and he soon finds himself sponging a Malibu suicide’s brains from a bathroom mirror and flirting with the man’s bereaved and beautiful daughter. Then things get weird: The dead man’s daughter asks a favor. Every cell in Web’s brain tells him to turn her down, but something makes him hit the Harbor Freeway at midnight to help her however he can. Soon enough it’s Web who needs the help when gun-toting California cowboys start showing up on his doorstep. What’s the deal? Is it something to do with what he cleaned up in that motel room in Carson? Or is it all about the brewing war between rival trauma cleaners? Web doesn’t have a clue, but he’ll need to get one if he’s going to keep from getting his face kicked in. Again. And again. And again.”

Bloody Disgusting is reporting that British actor Ben Whishaw (Bright Star, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) has landed the lead. He’s joined by Mercedes Masohn ((Quarantine 2: Terminal), Clayne Crawford (Starbuck’s idiot ex from 24), Jeremy Ray Valdez (The Obama Effect), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (Predators), Kelsey Ford (Vampires Suck) and Ron Yuan (Prison Break).

I like that Ball is pairing mostly lesser-known actors with Whishaw; it allows us to get pulled into the new story without being distracted by big names or famous faces. Well, mostly undistracted - I mean, the boy is pretty:

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Comments

Hallefuckinlulah! I'm in the middle of watching Bright Star for the second time and I LOVE Ben Wishaw. He's such an awesome actor. Can't wait to see him pull of the American accent. Psyched for this.

Posted by: grace b at August 22, 2010 3:15 PM

I loved him since Perfume. I claim his as my own. BACK OFF BITCHES. I'm lookin at you gp

Posted by: Nadine at August 22, 2010 3:16 PM

Eurgh. No, thank you. I like 'em with less estrogen than me.

Posted by: Aislinn at August 22, 2010 3:18 PM

Is the guy in the header pic the Geico caveman without his makeup?

Posted by: Fredo at August 22, 2010 3:30 PM

Ben Wishaw is phenomenal, but I feel like Ball is overrated. I want Wishaw to be able to get the film roles he deserves, not miss them because he's tangled up in a middling series.

Did anyone see Towelhead? It was pretty awful.

Posted by: Kevin Longrie at August 22, 2010 3:35 PM

He was for me, the best part of I'm Not There. So versatile! I wouldn't mind if he beefed up a bit though, that would be even nice of him (going from a Charlie Hunnam in Undeclared to Charlie Hunnam in SOA sort of thing).

Posted by: grace b at August 22, 2010 3:47 PM

I love HBO. Possibly because I just started getting into tv and I've watched the first couple seasons of The Wire and a couple episodes of Treme, Six Feet Under and Deadwood (all next on my list of things to watch.)

This sounds excellent.

Posted by: A-schaef at August 22, 2010 4:09 PM

Well, he's KILLING True Blood; is this an original series? Hope so. If it's based on someone else's material, he's going to fucking destroy it.

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at August 22, 2010 4:53 PM

Ooops -- note to self - read the text, not just the title, before commenting.

And... guess he's going to be murdering someone else's source material again.

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at August 22, 2010 4:54 PM

He was creepy hot in Perfume.

Posted by: tallulahc at August 22, 2010 5:03 PM

grace b, he totally was the best part of I'm Not There, and then he's all fey and tragic in Brideshead Revisited. LOVE this kid. I have an autograph of his a friend got for me while he was doing Broadway. (Would've preferred to get it personally, and on my boobs, and signed with his tongue.)

LOVE HBO for producing shows where these lovely actors can be on TV with the supposed stigma of downgrading.

Posted by: Sefa at August 22, 2010 5:30 PM

Wait, so guy in header picture isn't Rudy from S1 of Dexter?

Posted by: dsbs at August 22, 2010 6:54 PM

So this is like the movie Cleaner without Samual Motherfuckin' L. Jackson? Could work (the movie didn't).

Posted by: Uriah Creep at August 22, 2010 10:03 PM

Note to self: it's *Samuel*, motherfucker.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at August 22, 2010 10:04 PM

Hmmm? Sorry. I was all lost in that pretty man's eyes. Rowwwer.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at August 23, 2010 1:34 AM

I like 'em skinny (less pejorative term: wiry), pretty and young, but Mr. Wishaw creeped me out past the point of "creepy hot" into "douche-chill creepy" in Perfume and I still haven't recovered.

I'll give him that he's a good actor, though.

Posted by: MM at August 23, 2010 1:40 AM

Yeah, see, for me, he was hot-creepy in Perfume, much like Cillian Murphy in Red-Eye, and he was the only thing that made Bright Star watchable for me. We're secretly in love. So, if I had HBO, I'd totally watch this. But I don't, so instead, I'll just marry Ben Whishaw and have the sex with him. Or maybe just have the sex. Marriage, schmarriage.

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