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O'Mara lands on ABC's 'Mars'


June 29, 2007 Jason O'Mara has been tapped as the lead in "Life on Mars," David E. Kelley's drama pilot for ABC that Thomas Schlamme is directing. The project, from 20th Century Fox TV, David E. Kelley Prods. and Kudos Film & Television, was ordered as a pilot this past development cycle, but production was pushed because of difficulties casting the lead. "When I read the script, the bad news was (that) in order for the project to work, we needed an actor who could play confident yet lost, forceful yet frightened, withdrawn yet available, and uncompromising yet funny," Schlamme said.

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