John Slattery Will Lead Fox Drama Pilot 'neXT'

Deadline reports John Slattery (Mad Men) will lead neXT, Fox's AI thriller drama pilot.

Slattery spent seven seasons on AMC's MAD MEN as Roger Sterling, which earned him four Emmy nominations. This is his first broadcast regular role in fifteen years, since Greg Berlanti's 2004 CW drama Jack & Bobby.

neXt is described as a propulsive, fact-based thriller grounded in the latest A.I. research. It features a brilliant but paranoid former tech CEO, Paul Leblanc (Slattery), who joins a Homeland Cybersecurity Agent (Fernanda Andrade ) and her team to stop the world's first artificial intelligence crisis: the emergence of a rogue AI with the ability to continuously improve itself.

Marrying pulse-pounding action with a layered examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don't yet understand, the series also presents us with a villain like we've never seen before, one whose greatest weapon against us is ourselves.

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