‘Lost’ Co-Star Jorge Garcia Cast In New Island Drama

(HMG Celebrity News) – Jorge Garcia who famously played Hugo “Hurley” Reyes on Lost, is set to play a lead on the Fox pilot Alcatraz, which is executive produced by Lost co-creator/executive producer J.J. Abrams.  The project, from Abrams’ Bad Robot Prods. and Warner Bros. TV, was written by Elizabeth Sarnoff, Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, and bought by Fox with a pilot commitment in mid-September, and greenlighted to pilot a week later. Garcia will play the hippy geek Dr. Diego Soto, the world’s foremost expert on Alcatraz.  Deadline Hollywood reports Garcia was the first and only actor the producers of Alcatraz approached for the role of Dr. Soto. The show centers on a group of missing Alcatraz prisoners and guards who reappear in the present day. It chronicles the efforts of a team of FBI agents to track them down and unravel the mystery behind their disappearance thirty years prior.