Golden Globe nominee Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex, Good Omens, Passengers) has been cast to play one of the leads in Fox’s Prodigal Son pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Prodigal Son centers on a criminal psychologist named Malcolm Bright, who knows how killers think because his father is a notorious serial killer known as “The Surgeon.”
Sheen is set to play the father, Martin Whitly, who was once a devoted family man and a successful cardiothoracic surgeon with high-profile patients.
The lead role of Malcolm has not yet been cast, but Lou Diamond Phillips, Aurora Perrineau, and Frank Harts are currently attached to star.