Actor Matt Czuchry attended the premiere of Netflix's "Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life" at the Regency Bruin Theatre on Nov. 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo : Getty Images/Alberto E. Rodriguez)
"Gilmore Girls" actor Matt Czuchry has been tapped to join "Star Trek Into Darkness" actor Bruce Greenwood and "The Hundred-Foot Journey" actor Manish Dayal in Fox's medical drama pilot "The Resident." Czuchry is scrubbing in.
According to Deadline, Czuchry will play a tough, brilliant, and cocky third-year senior resident doctor Conrad Hawkins in "The Resident." He pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in the modern-day medicine. Joining him is Greenwood who will play Chief of Surgery Dr. Soloman Bell.
"The Resident" focuses on an idealistic young doctor Devon Pravesh (Dayal), The Hollywood Reporter reported. He begins his first day at Kings County Hospital under Hawkins' supervision. Many lives are saved or lost, but there will always be shattered expectations.
"The Giver" helmer Philip Noyce directs "The Resident" from the script written by "Black Box" screenwriter Amy Holden Jones as well as "Code Black" screenwriters Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi. His other TV credits include NBC's pilots "Warrior" and "Crisis," the episode 1 of "Roots" remake, and several episodes of "Revenge."
"Training Day" helmer Antoine Fuqua is also on board to executive produce "The Resident" with Noyce, Jones, and Oly Obst. Schore and Sethi are also attached as co-executive producers with 20th Television, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Fuqua Films producing.
Czuchry's casting in "The Resident" came off after the Season 7 run ended last spring on CBS' highly-praised drama series "The Good Wife," wherein he played the bright young attorney Cary Agos. He recently recurred his role as Logan Huntzberger from all the four installments of the cult WB/CW dramedy "The Gilmore Girls" in the Netflix revival "Gilmore Girls: A Year In the Life."
Czuchry will also join his "Gilmore Girls" co-star Lauren Graham in Fox's comedy pilot "Linda From HR." He also did a short stint as Lyla's love interest Chris Kennedy on "Friday Night Lights" and is represented by Gersh and Thruline Entertainment.
The production for "The Resident" has not yet started. Fox is currently running "Rosewood" medical drama. The network has already greenlit another medical pilot "The Beast" from "ER" executive producer Neal Baer.
Watch the video about Matt Czuchry discussing "Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life":
