Actor Christopher Larkin, recently seen in YOMYOMF's comedy webseries Squad 85 -- and here, as a former Angry Reader of the Week -- has joined the cast of the CW sci-fi drama pilot The 100: CW's 'The 100' Adds Wise Guy to its Cast.The show, based on an upcoming book series, is set in a post-apocalyptic future, nearly a century after nuclear war has ravaged the planet, and the human race has evacuated to spaceships orbiting above the atmosphere. A group of juvenile delinquents is sent back to Earth on a high-stakes mission to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing and returning to the planet.
The first book in the series doesn't hit shelves until September, and it's already got a TV series? Sounds like a pretty hot property. I'm intrigued. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Larkin, a relative newcomer, will play a wisecracking kid named Monty:
Set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, a spaceship housing the lone human survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet. The drama pilot is based on the forthcoming Little, Brown-published The 100 book series by Kass Morgan.Sounds kind of like Monty could be the "Glenn" of this series. Because, hey, every post-apocalyptic saga needs a guy like that, right? On a funny note, I should add that it was actually Christopher's father, Pete Larkin, who tipped me off to this casting news -- how cool is that? That's a proud dad.
Larkin will play Monty, a sweet, funny and likable kid who is the furthest thing from a delinquent. He uses his smarts and sense of humor to help Clarke (Eliza Taylor) in her quest to survive and joins her, Finn, Jasper and Octavia on the trek to Mount Weather.