Sarah Shahi to Star in NBC Virtual Reality Thriller ‘Reverie’ – Variety

Sarah Shahi will star in NBCs drama pilot Reverie,Variety has learned.

Reverie is a grounded, dramatic thriller about a former detective specializing in human behavior who is brought in when the launch of an advanced virtual reality program has dangerous and unintended consequences.

Shahi will play Mara, a very intelligentcollege professor who is trained with the FBI in counter terrorism. Though shes a natural leader, her own psyche is still deeply pained and troubled by an incident in her past, leaving her to privately self medicate away her sleepless nights. Mara is intrigued when her old boss, Charlie Ventanaana (yet to be cast), brings her onto a strange project called Reverie, a fully immersive, customizable virtual reality program thats so effective that several of its users have refused to come back to reality, entering instead life-threatening comas. As Mara takes on the challenge of entering another persons consciousness to negotiate their journey back to their own reality, she discovers that she may also have found a way to her own redemption.

Reverie hails from writer Mickey Fisher, the creator of Halle Berrys former CBS series Extant. Fisher will serve as executive producer with Justin Falvey and Daryl Frank of Amblin TV, and Brooklyn Weaver. Universal Television is the studio.

Shahi has been in demand the past couple of pilot seasons and has courted a few offers this cycle. Last season, she was cast in the title role of the Nancy Drew pilotat CBS, which was intended to be a more diverse spin on the classic detective character the pilot ultimately did not go to series, causing quite a stir when it was rumored to be too female to land the greenlit atthe network.

Prior, Shahi starred on Person of Interest at CBS, USAs Fairly Legal, Showtimes The L Word and recurred on NBCs Chicago Fire. She is repped by CAA, McKeon-Myones and attorney Neil Meyer.

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Sarah Shahi to Star in NBC Virtual Reality Thriller 'Reverie' - Variety