Kidnapped: An Inside Look
The cast and crew of NBC's Kidnapped talk about the new serial drama.
by Travis Fickett
September 19, 2006 - Kidnapped is NBC's new serial drama that will take the audience through a single kidnapping for an entire season. The show stars Jeremy Sisto as a man who specializes in recovering kidnap victims. Delroy Lindo plays the FBI agent about to retire who gets drawn into this "one last case," and also has a history with Sisto's character. Timothy Hutton and Delroy Lindo play the parents of the boy who is taken, and Mykelti Williamson is the bodyguard who loses the boy.
Kidnapped was created by Jason Smilovic, a thirty-one-year-old writer and producer who already has some impressive credits under his belt. He wrote the Bruce Willis thriller Lucky Number Sleven, as well as producing the critically acclaimed series Karen Sisco. He brought Kidnapped to NBC after being inspired by the Akira Kurosawa movie High and Low - which chronicles the abduction of a wealthy businessman's son.
Smilovic is joined by Michael Dinner, his co-producer and director on Karen Sisco, as well as David Greenwalt, probably best known for his work as producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and co-creator of the spin-off Angel. It's an impressive team, and a fairly ambitious concept for a show. It's not the kind of show that will lend itself to casual viewing, but NBC is betting that it works well enough to hook people from the start and keep them hooked.
