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“Nashville” alum Riley Smith is set for the lead in The CW’s reboot of 2000 movie “Frequency”.
According to Deadline, the actor plays the role of Frank Sullivan, played by Dennis Quaid in the New Line flick.
Written by Jeremy Carver (the “Supernatural” showrunner), the series will center on “Raimy, a female police detective in 2016 who discovers that she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father, Frank Sullivan (Smith), also a detective, who died in 1996.
“Seen in 1996, Frank Sullivan has been undercover for two years. The strain of the assignment effectively destroyed his marriage and separated him from his little girl, Raimy, but he gets a new chance at building a relationship with her when she begins communicating with him from 20 years in the future. The two forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the ‘butterfly effect’ wreak havoc in the present day.”
The original film, which took place in 1999 New York, co-starred Jim Caviezel as the sibling who discovers he can communicate with his [younger] father via ham radio.
Smith’s other credits include “24”, “True Blood” and “True Detective”.
