The Tail Section

Lost star Daniel Dae Kim has joined the cast of A&E’s highly anticipated four hour adaptation of Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain.  Kim will play the part of Tsi Chou, a North Korean biological weapons expert brought in to contain a deadly virus from outer space.

The novel centered on the efforts of an elite team whose purpose was to deal with just such an event.  The model was echoed in Threshold, bringing an eclectic blend of scientists together.  Not to be too spoilery, but by the end of the book the central laboratory’s defense systems became more dangerous that the disease itself, but we’ll save that for the movie.

If you can’t wait for Kim’s version of the movie, check out the perfectly awesome 1971 adaptation by Director Robert Wise.  It rocks.