Alan Ritchson (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) has been cast as the male lead in “Blood Drive”, Syfy’s 13-episode straight-to-series, grindhouse cinema-inspired drama, writes Deadline.
Set in a near-apocalyptic future, “Blood Drive” centers around LA’s last good cop, Arthur Bailey (Ritchson) who partners with a dangerous femme fatale who has an agenda of her own.
Ritchson’s Arthur is a former cop who is now working for a private security company and deplores the violence that is encouraged among his peers. Bailey sincerely wants to help make this arid, quake-ravaged and dystopian world a better place, but during an investigation, he is forced to join the Blood Drive, an underground death race in which the cars run on human blood.
The series, from Universal Cable Prods. and executive producers John Hlavin and David Straiton, who will also direct, was created by James Roland who penned the pilot under Hlavin’s supervision.
Ritchson is best known for his portrayals of Aquaman on Smallville and Thad Castle on Blue Mountain State. Most recently he can be seen as Raphael in the Michael Bay produced reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.