Christian Slater is set to star in his first television series

Actor Christian Slater is set to star in a major new TV role as a Jason Bourne-style action hero. The not yet named drama, from writer-producer Jason Smilovic (Bionic Woman, Kidnapped, Karen Sisco), will see Slater play a suburban dad who learns that he has an alter-ego that is a spy.

The drama is described as “The Bourne Identity” meets “Jekyll & Hyde”, with Slater playing a mild-mannered suburban dad who learns that his alter ego is a spy.  Sources say NBC is close to handing out a series order for the project, which would be the network’s latest show to go direct to series without a pilot, following orders earlier this development season for Kath & Kim, The Philanthropist, Robinson Crusoe, Fear Itself, and The Listener.

Slater, whose career has been quiet since his initial spectacular rise to fame in the 1980s and ’90s with movies like Heathers, Gleaming the Cube, Pump Up the Volume, True Romance, Interview with the Vampire, and Broken Arrow.

Although only playing very small roles in movies, with occasional guest appearances in TV shows lately, Slater still remained in the spotlight thanks both  his bad boy behaviour, and now his high-profile relationship with Tamara Mellon.

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