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‘Wayward Pines’ Matt Dillon stars in “Wayward Pines,� premiering Thursday on Fox.
Mystery abounds in ‘Wayward Pines’ as Fox series premieres It isn’t Twin Peaks, but as mysterious television towns go, Wayward Pines is a reasonably close cousin. M. Night Shyamalan, the filmmaker who has built his reputation on eerie tales (“The Sixth Sense,� “Signs�), brings his approach to the home screen as a 10-episode Fox series debuts Thursday, May 14. Based on Blake Crouch’s book trilogy, “Wayward Pines� features a rare TV turn by Matt Dillon as a Secret Service man injured in a car crash as he arrives to seek two missing federal agents in the “perfect� title Idaho locale, where a “Stepford Wives� quality is evoked by residents just a little too happy to live there. Terrence Howard – continuing his Fox run this year after scoring big success as Lucious Lyon in “Empire� – also stars as the overprotective sheriff who calmly warns the newcomer to “follow the rules� in his jurisdiction. Other notables in the cast include Juliette Lewis (also in her second show this year, coming off ABC’s “Secrets and Lies�), Carla Gugino, Oscar winner Melissa Leo and Toby Jones (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy�). “Serialized TV is like me getting to do a (prolonged movie) first act,� executive producer Shyamalan explains of making his “Wayward Pines� move, “develop characters and insinuate and hint at things. That is where my lean is and that’s where I would love to be, rather than, ‘Get to the boat sinking, so we can get to the plot.’ We’ll get there, but we’re going to develop the characters. The rhythm of this style of storytelling is very comfortable for me.� Dillon, whose movie career has been marked by such titles as “There’s Something About Mary� and “Crash,� signed up for “Wayward Pines� for a similar reason. “I had questions,� he says, “and I continued to have questions even after I committed to doing the show,
BY JAY BOBBIN Carla Gugino stars in “Wayward Pines,� premiering Thursday on Fox.
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and I think that’s what drew me into it. I’m drawn to atmospheric projects, and I like this. “For me, the most important thing is that for the characters, there’s logic behind everything that they are doing. It doesn’t have to make sense to anybody but that individual, but there has to be a truthfulness to who the characters are, and I think we all felt that.� Co-star Gugino believes the atmospheric Vancouver, British Columbia, filming site helped: “I love a good mystery, and it’s not just about, ‘Let’s reveal these plot elements.’ Those are really interesting and there’s some really great plot reveals (here), but from the very start, this was character-driven. Those are things you can’t fake, and those are things that you do feel, no matter how much skill is involved. Being somewhere and letting it seep in for that period of time is very significant.� At the same time America gets its first taste of “Wayward Pines,� so will much of the rest of the world. It’s set to premiere in more 125 countries simultaneously, reportedly making it the largest global scripted-series launch ever. Shyamalan also directed the “Wayward Pines� premiere, and he admits he found the limited-run format a major appeal. Though he doesn’t rule out doing more TV, he says, “We won’t do it unless it’s organically and creatively correct. The only reason I said ‘Yes’ to (this) was because it wasn’t the thing I think could be an issue when you’re doing TV. “You don’t know the end, right? So you’re vamping to some extent – then you’re coming up with wonderfully creative ideas, but they may actually corner you and you don’t have an end anymore. In this thing, there was a real definitive place it was going, and all the puzzle pieces fit perfectly. So we would have to make sure that that happened again.�
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