Pushing Daisies

Before Pushing Daisies, Bryan Fuller was at the helm of the TV series Dead Like Me (starring Ellen Muth, pictured) until it was prematurely canceled after just two seasons.

In April of last year, it was announced that the television program will have a movie version, more likely a direct-to-DVD release. Also, it was reported that some character replacements have to be done to it since not everyone from the original cast would be able to do the movie.

Mandy Patinkin, then casted as the original boss of the “reapers” in the TV series, begged off from the movie project. Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond on Lost) was tapped to play the new boss, Cameron Kane. Laura Harris, who played Daisy on the series, was also not able to do a movie because of a prior commitment. Her role has been taken over by Sarah Wynter, who ironically played Daisy’s sister in Season 2 of Dead Like Me.

The movie’s plot as outlined in Wikipedia:

Set two years after the series ended, some time during those two years Rube left the other reapers, whether for his retirement or for better co-workers it is unknown. The Reapers left meet a new head reaper, Cameron Kane (Henry Ian Cusick) a “slick business man who couldn’t care less about helping the newly dead,” and George (Ellen Muth) reconnects with her sister Reggie (Britt McKillip) when she has to reap her new (and secret) boyfriend, Hudson Hart’s (Jordan Hudyma) soul. Daisy (now played by Sarah Wynter) is attracted to Cameron, who helps her get a role in After the Fall. Daisy, in a bid to gain the leading role, injures the lead actress and due to the stress turns to alcohol, even for the performances.

And according to this source, the movie DVD release has been pushed back to 2009.

Long, long wait! The trailer has been up since last year:

Dead Like Me, Bryan Fuller, Ellen Muth, Henry Ian Cusick, Sarah Wynters