Robert Kirkman’s Outcast Coming to New York Comic Con

Robert Kirkman’s Outcast will appear at New York Comic Con

Cinemax has announced that their upcoming TV series Outcast, based on the comic by “The Walking Dead’ creator Robert Kirkman, will be featured with its own panel at New York Comic Con. Set to take place Saturday, October 10 in Room 1A06 at 1:30 p.m., the panel will be moderated by comedian Jon Glaser and will include creator and executive producer Robert Kirkman, executive producer and showrunner Chris Black and lead actor Patrick Fugit (Kyle Barnes).

Based on the Skybound/Image comic title by Kirkman and artist Paul Azaceta, the series follows Kyle Barnes, a young man who has been plagued by demonic possession all his life. Now, with the help of the Reverend Anderson, a preacher with personal demons of his own, Kyle embarks on a journey to find answers and regain the normal life he lost. But what Kyle discovers could change his fate — and the fate of the world — forever.

Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous, Gone Girl) stars as Barnes, a man searching for answers, and for redemption, who sequesters himself from those he loves for fear of causing greater hurt. Philip Glenister stars as Reverend Anderson, a West Virginia evangelist who believes he is a soldier in God’s holy war against the forces of evil on Earth. An inveterate drinker and gambler, he doesn’t believe God intends people to sweat the small stuff. Gabriel Bateman stars as Joshua Austin, an eight-year-old who lives across town from Kyle. To his family’s dismay, he appears to be in the clutches of demonic possession, but there’s something very different about this possession and its connection to Kyle Barnes.

Kirkman has penned the script for the pilot episode which has been in development since November, before the first issue was even published. You’re Next and The Guest director Adam Wingard directed the pilot episode of the series.