Manifest, from Jeff Rake (The Mysteries of Laura) and Robert Zemeckis, will focus on a plane full of passengers which disappears from all radar readings and then pops back up a whopping five years later, after it was completely untraceable and presumed lost at sea.
The pilot for Manifest, which has been ordered by NBC, will see Josh Dallas as the male lead, Ben Stone.
To those on the newly returned flight, no time has passed at all, and the drama will look into the personal lives of the passengers as well as the larger mystery of their disappearance and their ultimate destiny.
Ben is your typical type-A father who also works in intelligence as an analyst and has been known to struggle when confronted with things he can’t control, like his young son’s rare cancer and the mystifying voice he now hears in his head.