
The Nine Lives Of Chloe King star Skyler Samuels has landed the lead of NBC‘s drama pilot Bloodline, playing another teen girl warrior. Written by David Graziano and directed by Peter Berg, Bloodline is described as a pulpy, highly stylized look into the cheeky world of Bird Benson (Samuels), a smart, irreverent and strong young girl who, due to an accident of birth, finds herself caught in the middle of an epic struggle between two warrior families set against the backdrop of modern suburbia. The character echoes Samuel’s Chloe on the ABC Family series, who was a descendant of an ancient race and became a warrior trying to stop the war between that race and humans. On Bloodline, Samuels, repped by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment and attorney Tom Hoberman, joins Breaking Bad‘s Jonathan Banks who plays her maternal grandfather.
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Show sounds insanely stupid but love me some Skyler Samuels so I will check it out.
Worked with Skyler on Nine; she is lovely and a star in the making! So glad to hear we’ll be seeing more of her soon.
Only recently marathoned through “Nine Lives” and thought it was a solid show. She definitely grew into the role, so she should have no problem here.
I wonder if this will become another “Grimm” vs “17th Precinct” decision for NBC. Would NBC pick-up both “Bloodline” and the similar “Believe” if both were good options?
Geez. How about giving somebody else a chance?
I gotta say I thought this show idea was just another dumb attempt at genre until I had the chance to read the script. I was blown away. It is fresh, smart, funny. And it seems as though NBC is putting together quite a cast. Skyler was the best thing about Chloe King. She was also great on the Gates. Bloodline could be the vehicle that launches her into the stratosphere if NBC doesn’t screw it up.
Best pilot script this season by a wide margin. I work closely with Joss Whedon and even overheard him talking about it — and he’s one picky bastard. From what I understand, there was a lot of competition for the lead role in this. Kudos to Skyler for duking it out. I definitely look forward to seeing her in comic-con this year if NBC launches it right.
Have you read Tyrant or The Affair? What’s the worst pilot you read then? I put Bloodline in he same group as Blink and Gothica.
Very excited to see Skyler in another role. Now another pilot just needs to snap up Benjamin Stone in a leading role, those two were the best thing about Nine Lives.
Sounds like a good show. I love Skyler Samuels & look forward to watching her
Sounds interesting and can’t wait to see Skyler in this new pilot. Miss Nine Lives. Don’t really watch anything on NBC right now, will check this out because of Skyler!
Im so excited! I think that skylar will fit in just perfect. She had the #TNLOCK where she was (awesome by the way) and that show she played kinda the same ish warrior gils so I think that she will pull it together if the nbc don’t screw it up! ! They tv shows that extrully r good and good ranking, it seems like the nbc cw and the others always screw it up like #TNLOCK the carrie diaries the secret circle heroes oc 90210 (soon) and other shows that I can’t remembe at the moment! !