Matthew Goode is set to topline the pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatskys, Roadside Picnic explores a near-future world where aliens have come and gone, leaving humankind to explore the wondrous and dangerous mysteries left behind. The story also examines the social ramifications of their visit, as seen through the eyes of Red, a veteran ?stalker? who has made it his mission to illegally venture into the once-inhabited "Zone" and scavenge the abandoned remains of the alien culture. Goode will play Redrick "Red" Shuhart, an "enigmatic, blue-collar contradiction" who can be quietly intelligent one moment and utterly ruthless the next. Red has a loving relationship with his wife Guta and his daughter Marie ? who is shunned because she is a child of the "Zone," the site of a long-ago extraterrestrial visitation.