STARDAR REPORT: Vince Porter, the Executive Director of Oregon Film, just posted this over at the state's gossip blog, Oregon Confluence: "Turner Broadcasting announced today that D.B. Sweeney has been cast to play the lead in Electric Entertainment’s pilot set in Portland titled “Brain Trust”.

Porter grabbed the scoop on the series pilot form Nikki Finke's "Deadline Hollywood" here. And it good news due to the fact that Dean Devlin is the dude behind the project. Devlin is the same guy who landed Leverage in Portland. And gossip has been swirling around town that Devlin was interested in developing a couple of new projects in PDX over the last several weeks.

NOW, what's interesting to note is the casting of Sweeney.

Really, when was the last time you heard of this guy in anything (well, except perhaps the under-watched NBC show "The Event")? Also interesting to note is that this isn't Sweeney's first time in Oregon. In 1992 D.B. (it stands for Daniel Bernard) filmed the classic "Fire In the Sky" here (it was the "true" story of alien abduction and, if I remember right, anal probing). Not long after that he returned to Portland to make "Hear No Evil." During those projects, the single Sweeney was quite the ladies man around Portland, and he "dated" more than one friend of mine.

Back to Porter's story: "Dean Devlin will be directing the pilot which is due to shoot in Portland in December for two weeks. We were thrilled to have Electric bring a second project to Oregon and even more excited to hear that they made the decision to re-write this pilot for Portland. The original script had set the pilot in Washington D.C. If this pilot follows the normal schedule of production, post-production and then possible series order, then we ought to know whether this project is going to be another series produced in Oregon no later than April.  We’re keeping our fingers crossed since a third series in Oregon (“Leverage”, “Portlandia”) would dramatically change the film and TV industry in Oregon. It’s also worth noting that the other project mentioned in this article “Bird Dog” is also set in Oregon.  Unfortunately this project is being shot in Vancouver, B.C. because it came together at the last minute and the studio did not feel they could pull together the pilot in Oregon in less than a week.  That being said, if “Bird Dog” becomes a series, we will be revisiting this project with the studio as we believe we can make a strong case for Oregon if we have a little bit more time to make the case."

Wonder if this is the reason that Matthew Perry and Michael Cera are in town too...hmmmm....on second thought.

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