Nathan Fillion

Nathan Fillion was the hottest thing in the genre world during the short lived Firefly TV series. After the series ended and the tie in film Serenity was in the can Fillion went on to do another fantastic genre film called Slither. Things were looking up, but then, for some reason he signed on to do White Noise 2. WTF? So, just when we thought we saw the last of Fillion, other than Bruce Campbell rejected direct to video trash along comes one time writer and executive producer of Firefly Tim Minear with a new TV series.

Minear is the creator and executive producer of Drive, a series that has been picked up by FOX and is expected to debut in spring of 2007. The series focuses on Fillion’s character that is forced to participate in an illegal cross country road race to save his abducted wife. The pilot was shot with Ivan Sergei playing the lead role. Minear wanted Fillion all along but at the time of shooting Fillion was deep into the production of his new classic White Noise 2. So when the series was picked up and Fillion had become available the lead role was recast.

While it isn’t the return to genre that we had hoped for this series should feature some great action, and if Fillion is given any leeway at all, some quirky character moments.