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Are The Powers That Be Close To Casting Petersen's CSI Replacement??


Merrick here...


Laurence Fishburne, so great as Ike Turner in WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? and so...dour...in THE MATRIX films...is in talks to succeed William Petersen in CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION.

He'll play a new character:

Fishburne is being heavily courted to play the new character, described as a doctor/scientist outsider to the CSI unit who has the same genetic profile as a serial killer but hasn't previously acted on any homicidal impulses.

...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.

I've never really been into CSI at all, but Fishburne's character sounds like it could by fun/interesting.




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geez
by blackhole4140
Aug 6th, 2008
10:02:50 AM
Spo? Dour??
by TheJake
Aug 6th, 2008
10:03:44 AM
Same genetic profile as a serial kiler?
by lex romero
Aug 6th, 2008
10:06:33 AM
Serial Killer
by enderandrew
Aug 6th, 2008
10:08:56 AM
Or they could just cancel the show
by Big Jim
Aug 6th, 2008
10:10:16 AM
"Fishburne's character sounds like it could by fun/interesting"
by newc0253
Aug 6th, 2008
10:19:55 AM
No Liev Schreiber?
by chrth
Aug 6th, 2008
10:20:41 AM
Larry Fishburne, actor emeritus
by Mullah Omar
Aug 6th, 2008
10:22:13 AM
Here's why he is being courted
by ArcadianDS
Aug 6th, 2008
10:25:28 AM
Agreed on some of the 'non-Peterson' shows
by ArcadianDS
Aug 6th, 2008
10:29:41 AM
Why is Peterson Leaving?
by Cory849
Aug 6th, 2008
10:31:59 AM
Liev Schreiber's Keppler chracter was killed off.
by jimmy rabbitte
Aug 6th, 2008
10:40:13 AM
I have a better idea...
by lord_zedd
Aug 6th, 2008
10:49:30 AM
What about Snake?
by Booster Gold Lives
Aug 6th, 2008
10:59:21 AM
ArcadianDS
by xsi kal
Aug 6th, 2008
11:09:41 AM
ArcadianDS
by AdmiralNeck
Aug 6th, 2008
11:17:02 AM
Fishburne
by fassbinder79
Aug 6th, 2008
11:23:07 AM
"He'll play a new character"
by smackfu
Aug 6th, 2008
11:26:40 AM
C'mon Fish, play it as Ike Turner
by samurai sark
Aug 6th, 2008
11:36:01 AM
enderandrew
by bigbadbua
Aug 6th, 2008
11:36:19 AM
New Character
by The Funketeer
Aug 6th, 2008
11:48:02 AM
Blexter?
by Luscious.868
Aug 6th, 2008
11:57:08 AM
Pee Wee's CSI
by LedgeRat
Aug 6th, 2008
12:04:43 PM
RE: Same genetic profile as a serial kiler?
by photoboy
Aug 6th, 2008
12:08:28 PM
Schieber rocked
by ciroslive
Aug 6th, 2008
12:14:05 PM
CSI is television for morons
by Pongo
Aug 6th, 2008
12:15:51 PM
He doesnt have that hollyweird hair for the part...
by wowsah156
Aug 6th, 2008
12:18:45 PM
TV is where is the money is
by snowpuff
Aug 6th, 2008
12:26:35 PM
See, doing TV used to be slumming it
by terry1978
Aug 6th, 2008
12:30:12 PM
xsi kal, you are correct, that is the Brass episode
by Big Jim
Aug 6th, 2008
12:39:24 PM
*Profile* of a serial killer
by deadnotsleeping
Aug 6th, 2008
12:40:18 PM
no to kurt russell
by Mr_X
Aug 6th, 2008
12:42:24 PM
@ Smackfu
by Belvis
Aug 6th, 2008
12:46:51 PM
OOHers
by Purgatori
Aug 6th, 2008
12:50:12 PM
I like that idea of making Grissom a killer
by spectrebeeyatch
Aug 6th, 2008
01:04:30 PM
BAH!
by VictorVonDoom
Aug 6th, 2008
01:08:55 PM
Hire Robert Patrick and call him Dr Doggett
by A-COD
Aug 6th, 2008
01:20:52 PM
So why is Peterson leaving?
by Bass Ackwards
Aug 6th, 2008
01:23:44 PM
The only way to end the show
by Dmann
Aug 6th, 2008
01:25:14 PM
Is the African American man of authority
by skimn
Aug 6th, 2008
01:52:31 PM
Merrick....
by BYOBkenobi
Aug 6th, 2008
02:31:10 PM
Wait a minute Wait a minute...
by johnnyangel
Aug 6th, 2008
03:20:39 PM
Or cast . . . uh . . . Seth Rogen . . . and make it a comedy.
by kabong
Aug 6th, 2008
03:31:06 PM
You know there's no God...
by sapno_krei
Aug 6th, 2008
03:35:44 PM
John Malkovich
by Roffstafarian
Aug 6th, 2008
03:38:45 PM
uhm Dexter?
by Damien Chowder
Aug 6th, 2008
03:39:14 PM
I really hope AICN will cover DEXTER season 3
by David Cloverfield
Aug 6th, 2008
03:50:22 PM
Really like the show...
by mrfan
Aug 6th, 2008
04:21:07 PM
AICN will not cover Dexter season 3
by smackfu
Aug 6th, 2008
04:39:40 PM
Russell YES...Fishburne...uhh NO THANKS
by Quartermass-87
Aug 6th, 2008
04:44:14 PM
Love Fishburn
by frongbak
Aug 6th, 2008
05:26:42 PM
"You're better than this Cowboy Curtis!!!!!"
by Mullah Omar
Aug 6th, 2008
06:20:12 PM
Wasn't this Petersen's character in MANHUNTER?
by palimpsest
Aug 6th, 2008
06:52:17 PM
To Live and Die in L.A.
by dr sauch
Aug 6th, 2008
07:15:49 PM
Good pension for Fishburn.
by lostbat
Aug 6th, 2008
07:24:16 PM
So if he did act on his murderous impulses
by deanbarry
Aug 6th, 2008
07:35:19 PM
Replace David Caruso with Jimmy Smits...Oh wait,
by Green Arrow
Aug 6th, 2008
07:41:17 PM
He knows Kung-Fu.
by Banditmania
Aug 6th, 2008
08:23:50 PM
Larry should play it as Easy Reader.
by Uncle Stan
Aug 6th, 2008
09:28:19 PM
CSI CLEVELAND will rock!
by Uncle Stan
Aug 6th, 2008
09:30:09 PM
Investigate Grissom's Death
by cutter999999999
Aug 6th, 2008
09:38:19 PM
its a sad day
by the milf lover
Aug 6th, 2008
10:48:04 PM
cant change the fact that
by Seth Cohen
Aug 7th, 2008
10:30:24 AM
Grissom will go out investigation Warrick's death
by nicegoogly
Aug 7th, 2008
11:42:04 AM
Finally, So tired of the Super Smart white man shows
by ragermac
Aug 7th, 2008
02:03:07 PM
Basset?
by cooper2000
Aug 7th, 2008
02:54:25 PM
DIE, CSI, DIE!
by Le Vicious Fishus
Aug 7th, 2008
04:25:56 PM
RIP, Gil Grissom 2000-2008
by Chest_Rockwell78
Aug 7th, 2008
04:27:53 PM
hmmm
by Kabukiman
Aug 9th, 2008
06:07:03 PM

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