When writer Nick Santora first heard about real-life genius
Walter O’Brien and his think-tank company, Scorpion Computer Services, he
immediately saw the potential for action.
His resulting show for CBS, Scorpion, casts Elyes Gabel as O’Brien, whose IQ is ranked the
world’s fourth-highest, and surrounds him with other brilliant specialists in
mechanics, statistics and behavior analysis.
As the brainy new team, guarded by federal agent Cobe Gallo (Robert
Patrick), works each week to defend the U.S. against the high-tech threats of
the modern age, Scorpion will be “a little bit of X-Men, a little bit A-Team,”
Santora promises. And with producers
like Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (The Amazing
Spider-Man 3) and director Justin Lin (The
Fast and the Furious) behind the scenes, Scorpion will boast feature-level special effects that literally
jolt these geniuses with a Big Bang.
Katharine McPhee, who plays the waitress mother of an
autistic young boy whose gifted intelligence O’Brien discovers, says she was
“enthralled by all the stories the real Walter was telling us on the set. This show brings us into some real, top-secret
areas we don’t necessarily know about.”
Scorpion, Santora
adds, combines adventure with the dramatic, interpersonal workings of a group
of outsiders striving to fit in. “There
will be self-doubt and self-discovery, because so many of these guys are
insecure,” the writer explains. “We’re
going to see how being a genius can be tough.
Because when you’re 1 in 1.47 billion, that can be a lonely feeling.”
Scorpion
CBS
Mondays at 9PM
beginning September 22
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