Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Chi McBride (”Pushing Daisies”) and Jackie Earle Haley (”Little Children”, “Watchmen”) have joined the cast of the “Human Target” pilot episode, along with Mark Valley (”Fringe”) in the adaptation of the DC/Vertigo series about a mysterious PI and bodyguard named Christopher Chance, who assumes the identity of his clients. There is no mention of who McBride or Haley will be playing in the pilot.

A TV pilot adaptation of the comic was filmed in 1990 starring Rick Springfield, but the series only briefly aired in 1992 with 7 episodes and followed a similar setup from the comic. This new pilot, which Fox will produce, has no official premiere date set.

First appearing in 1972 in DC’s “Action Comics” as a back-up story, Christopher Chance, aka The Human Target, was created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino. He is a bodyguard and investigator who assumes the identities of his clients in order to protect them and flush out those who are after them. The character appeared in a variety of other DC titles, including “Detective Comics”, and in 1991, obsensibly as a tie-in to the Springfield TV series, starred in his own one-shot book. In 1999 the character moved to DC’s Vertigo imprint, where Peter Milligan and Edvin Biukovic gave him a 4-issue limited series, and then an ongoing “Human Target” series that lasted 21 issues in 2003.

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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Entertainment Weekly)

The Human Target Comic