The forged of The CW’s forthcoming Walker, Texas Ranger reboot is shaping up properly.
Pretty Little Liars alum Keegan Allen is the most recent addition, based on Variety.
He joins a forged that already consists of Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) and Lindsey Morgan (The 100).
Allen is taking over the position of Liam Walker, a “barely smug, however with a powerful ethical compass, Liam is Walker’s youthful homosexual and conservative brother who has been lately promoted to assistant DA,” per the character description.
Regardless of Liam being near Walker (Padalecki), Liam offers his brother powerful love. He has remained near residence, and has “sacrificed his private life in favor of his household duties.”
Moreover, Lam stepped as much as handle Walker’s kids when he was not round, and he has a powerful bond with each children.
In keeping with the present’s logline, Cordell Walker is a “a widower and father of two together with his personal ethical code who returns residence to Austin after being undercover for 2 years, solely to find there’s more durable work to be accomplished at residence.”
“He’ll try to reconnect together with his kids, navigate clashes together with his household, and discover surprising frequent floor together with his new accomplice (one of many first ladies in Texas Rangers’ historical past), whereas rising more and more suspicious concerning the circumstances surrounding his spouse’s demise.”
Morgan is hooked up to play Walker’s new accomplice, changing into one of many first ladies within the historical past of the Texas Rangers.
As an alternative of ordering a pilot, The CW made the unprecedented transfer of ordering the present straight-to-series. A majority of these orders are usually not regular for The CW.
However with Supernatural and The 100 ending this season, the community probably wished to maintain two of the breakout stars of their previous sequence.
That being stated, Walker will nonetheless movie a pilot forward of the Upfronts. This may give the community a product to point out off to advertisers.
The CW additionally ordered Arrowverse spinoff Superman & Lois to sequence, whereas different reveals are going to pilot.
As for Allen, he appeared on all seven seasons of Fairly Little Liars and went on to seem on What/If and Main Crimes.
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