Riley Smith Lands the Lead in The CW’s Frequency Reimagining
Debi Moore
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We told you at the end of January that The CW has a “reimagining” of the film Frequency in the works as a possible series with some gender swapping, and today we have the first casting news. Since the project was written by “Supernatural” showrunner Jeremy Carver, we figured it’s worth at least a mention.
Per Deadline, Riley Smith (“True Blood,” “The Messengers,” “True Detective”) will portray Frank Sullivan, the dead detective character played by Dennis Quaid in the 2000 film. The storyline of this new version of “Frequency” revolves around Raimy, a female police detective in 2016 who discovers that she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father (Smith), who died 20 years ago.
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 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 CW’s “Frequency,” from WBTV and Lin Pictures, is executive produced by Carver, Toby Emmerich (who wrote the film), John Rickard, and Lin Pictures’ Dan Lin and Jennifer Gwartz.
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