EXCLUSIVE: Former
Grey’s Anatomy star
Patrick Dempsey is returning to broadcast TV as the lead of
Memory of a Killer,
Fox‘s straight-to-series thriller about a hitman who develops early onset Alzheimer’s. The network is expected to unveil his casting at its upfront presentation Monday.
From writers Ed Whitmore and Tracey Malone, Warner Bros. TV and Fox Entertainment, the series is inspired by the 2003 Belgian film
De Zaak Alzheimer (
La Memoire Du Tueur), which was remade as the 2022 American action thriller film
Memory directed by Martin Campbell.
Dempsey is set for the lead role played by Jan Decleir in the original movie and Liam Neeson in the American feature adaptation.
In
Memory of a Killer, Angelo Ledda (Dempsey) lives two totally separate lives — fearsome NYC hitman and sleepy upstate Cooperstown photocopier salesman and father. Both of them are threatened when he is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a disease he already lost his older brother to.
To further complicate things, he discovers that his wife’s recent death may not have been an accident. When someone comes after his daughter — who is pregnant — it’s clear the wall between his lives has been breached. Angelo must stop whoever’s coming for his family by searching his past hits for clues, and the list is very long. Memory of a Killer is a redemptive story about a man who is losing his memory but gaining a conscience.
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