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Quinn and Hauer "Motor" to ABC drama pilot

Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:16am EDT
Aidan Quinn arrives at the premiere of the film ''Dark Matter'' during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 23, 2007. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

By Nellie Andreeva

Television

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC's drama pilot "Prince of Motor City" has emerged as the "Dirty Sexy Money" or the "Brothers & Sisters" of this pilot season -- a large ensemble that has attracted top talent.

The latest big-name actor tapped for a starring role in the "Hamlet"-inspired family soap is Aidan Quinn, with Rutger Hauer also on board as a regular.

The two join the previously cast Piper Perabo, Andie MacDowell, Sharon Lawrence, John Carroll Lynch, Warren Christie and Morris Chestnut.

"Prince" centers on Billy Hamilton (Christie), a young Harvard philosophy professor forced to return to Detroit to take over the family's auto company after his father's death.

Quinn will play Billy's uncle Charlie Hamilton, who always has been in his brother's shadow. Hauer will play Billy's father, William Hamilton, who recently was killed in an accident and begins appearing to his estranged son as a ghost.

Quinn, who appeared in Fox's short-lived legal drama "Canterbury's Law," received an Emmy nomination last year for his supporting role in the HBO TV movie "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." Hauer's recent features include "Batman Begins" and "Sin City."

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