Back in March, USA Network snagged the rights to the television version of the 2007 Mark Wahlberg film, Shooter. While Wahlberg agreed to come aboard as a producer, he’s far too busy producing movies and making poo jokes with profane stuffed animals to star in a basic cable television series, so the network needed to bring in someone else to fill the role. Today, they did just that, announcing that Ryan Phillippe will join the pilot as star and producer. The plot, via Deadline:
[T]he action drama centers on Bob Lee Swagger (Phillippe), an off-the-grid former Marine sniper who is coaxed into action to thwart the killing of the President. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he must call upon all the skills he acquired as a decorated Marine sharpshooter to avoid capture while hunting down and exposing the traitors who set him up.
See, the real shame here is that we live in a post-Mr. Robot world, where USA is apparently capable of producing compelling, critically-acclaimed television. Because two or three years ago, in USA’s Sunglasses Cop: The Beach Lawyer heyday, the idea of Ryan Phillippe playing a disgraced sun-soaked Miami sniper named “Bobby Swagger” would have been maybe the greatest thing ever. Now the show might actually be, like, good or something. That’s no fun at all.
(Via Deadline)
