According to Deadline, The Walking Dead vet Josh McDermitt has been tapped to join the Suits: LA cast for the upcoming spin-off of the hit legal drama, which received a pilot order from NBC earlier this month.
McDermitt will be joining previously announced cast member Stephen Amell (Arrowverse), who has signed on to lead the spin-off. McDermitt is set to portray the role of Stuart Lane, who’s described as an energetic, powerful, focused and self-absorbed friend of Amell’s character Ted Black.
Who’s involved in the Suits spin-off?
Suits: LA hails from original series creator Aaron Korsh, who is executive producing with David Bartis, Doug Liman, and Gene Klein. The pilot will be directed and executive produced by Victoria Mahoney (The Old Guard 2). Production is expected to begin in late March in Vancouver.
“Suits: L.A. centers on Ted Black (Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York, who has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles,” reads the logline. “His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while events from years ago slowly unravel that led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.”
The original series starred Patrick J. Adams, Gina Torres, Gabriel Macht, Meghan Markle, Amanda Schull, Dulé Hill, Rick Hoffman, and Sarah Rafferty. The series centered around Adams’ Mike Ross, a college dropout who has an incredible photographic memory. Despite not graduating from law school, he managed to become the newest associate of attorney Harvey Specter, who was instantly impressed by his skills and knowledge.