
WESTWOOD, CA - JUNE 07: Actor James Caviezel arrives at "The Karate Kid" Los Angeles Premiere at Mann Village Theatre on June 7, 2010 in Westwood, California.
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James Caviezel has been cast in J.J. Abrams and Jonah Nolan’s CBS drama pilot Person of Interest.
He joins Lost alum Michael Emerson and Oscar-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson in the Warner Bros. Television project.
The drama centers on a paramilitary CIA officer (Caviezel) who is presumed killed in the line of duty, but resurfaces in New York City where he teams up with an eccentric billionaire (Emerson) to clean up the city’s violent underworld.
Caviezel co-starred opposite Ian McKellen in AMC’s 2009 remake of The Prisoner. He also starred in Terrence Malick’s Thin Red Line and Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ.
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