Patrick Swayze may be battling pancreatic cancer, but that challenge hasn’t halted his career.
The Dirty Dancing star plans to keep his lead in a new A&E series, set to begin filming in Chicago this summer. The first episode of the series was shot last December, just four months before Swayze announced he had cancer.
The Beast will star Swayze as a veteran FBI agent training a younger partner, played by Travis Fimmel.
The series will be directed by Michael Dinner, known for his work directing and producing The Wonder Years. William Rotko, who wrote the feature film, Breach, and Vincent Angell, an actor in the TV show 24, are writing and producing.
Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March. Although news reports swirled that the actor had only a few weeks to live, Swayze recently told People magazine that he has responded well to treatment.
Swayze hasn’t done much acting in the last few years. “I have searched for quite a long time to find a character that is this multi-layered, unpredictable and downright entertaining, as well as a project this current and cutting edged,” he said in a written statement.
A&E is planning to air the first episodes of The Beast in early 2009.
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