If you weren’t aware of it, A&E is in production on a miniseries remake of ‘The Andromeda Strain’, based on the 1969 novel that established Michael Crichton, my personal favorite fiction writer.  Here’s a brief synopsis:

After a U.S. government satellite crashes in a remote part of Utah, a deadly bacteria begins to spread, wiping out a small town with the exception of one old man and one infant. Why did they survive? Can those survivors teach a team of scientists how to contain the outbreak? And how will the military handle the spreading disaster?

Today, A&E announced the complete cast list for the miniseries, which is produced by Ridley and Tony Scott, and directed by Mikael Salomon.

Zap2It has the complete listing, along with their respective roles:

[Benjamin] Bratt (”Law & Order”) plays Dr. Jeremy Stone, lead epidemiologist on the investigating team. [Christa] Miller (”Scrubs”), [Daniel Dae] Kim (”Lost”) and [Viola] Davis (”Traveler”) play other scientists, with [Ricky] Schroder (”24″) as a virologist with the Army’s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease. [Andre] Braugher (”Homicide: Life on the Streets”) plays General George Mancheck, a US Biochemical Research officer. Complicating things, we assume, is [Eric] McCormack’s (”Will & Grace”) Jack, an investigative reporter.

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