SyFy names the team that will produce Dominion
Syfy announced that they signed writing partners Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer to run their new supernatural drama Dominion. Syfy named Slavkin and Swimmer as Executive Producers and co-Showrunners. Dominion wil be executive produced by Vaun Wilmott. Dominion is being made by Universal Cable Productions and Bold Films. Syfy plans to premiere Dominion this June.
Dominion is based on the 2010 film Legion. Legion’s director and co-author, Scott Stewart, is directing the pilot and producing. The pilot was written by Vaun Wilmott, who is also producing, executively.
Slavkin and Swimmer have been working with Syfy and Universal Cable Productions for a while now. They write and executive produce Defiance, which they used to consult for and they were consulting producers on the second season of Syfy’s original drama, Alphas.
Slavkin and Swimmer went from feature film screenwriting into television on WB/CW’s Smallville and then ran the Melrose Place reboot for the CW. Their names are on ABC’s No Ordinary Family and the 2004 thriller Control starring Ray Liotta and Willem Dafoe. They have been best friends since sixth grade.
Dominion features the characters from the 2010 movie Legion, only 25 years later. A war between angels and people has changed the world and they have to rely on one rebel soldier to save humanity.
Anthony Stewart Head plays David Weel, the president of the Senate of Vega, which we know as Las Vegas. He butts heads with the city’s military leader, General Rysen. Anthony Stewart Head, who was Buffy’s mentor in the long-running Joss Wheedon TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Head has also appeared in Merlin, Little Britain, Manchild and Free Agents and on the TV series Highlander, Doctor Who, NYPD Blue and Spooks. Head’s last role was on Syfy’s Warehouse 13. Head has appeared in the films The Iron Lady, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Repo! The Genetic Opera and Imagine Me & You. On the British stage, Head has acted in Six Degrees of Separation at the Old Vic and the London revival of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He was also a musician, I learned that on Buffy.
Roxanne McKee, who plays Doreah in Game of Thrones, plays General Rysen’s daughter, Claire Rysen, who’s like some kind of a princess. Roxanne McKee appeared on British TV as Louise Summers in the series Hollyoaks and on BBC in Lip Service. McKee appeared in the movies Ironclad: Battle for Blood and Fox's Wrong Turn 5.
Luke Allen-Gale plays William Weel, from Vega’s other ruling family. Weel is the Head of the Church of the Savior. Luke Allen-Gale trained at The Drama Centre London made his acting debut in 2008 on Wallander. Known in England as Dr. Springer in Monroe and in America from his recurring role in The Borgias.
Shivani Ghai plays Arika, who is a diplomat sent from Helena, which used to be known as Salt Lake City, but is now a militant matriarchal society. Shivani Ghai was first noticed in the Bollywoo musical Bride & Prejudice. She appeared on American television in HBO’s Five Days and House of Saddam, and the History Channel’s The Bible miniseries.
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