The CW has revealed the first official key art and synopsis for its reboot of 4400.
The image features the titular "4400" assembled on a grassy knoll to spell out the series title. The synopsis itself hews fairly close to the original series, which saw 4400 people from various points in time reappear in Detroit after their mysterious disappearance. As the government races to contain the story, the 4400 must learn to live in an entirely new time and also grapple with the fact that some of them have returned with superhuman abilities.
The original iteration of The 4400 was created by Scott Peters and Renee Echevarria, and featured future genre stars including Mahershala Ali (Blade, Invincible) and Megalyn Echikunwoke (Vixen). The reboot continues that tradition by casting Arrow alum Joseph David-Jones as "an empathetic social worker" and Ireon Roach (Candyman) as a "hardened community corrections officer" who reluctantly work together to care for the 4400.
4400 will headline the CW's 2021-2022 schedule, as the network prepares to expand its programming to include primetime hours on Saturdays. The reboot is developed by Ariana Jackson (Riverdale), who serves as series showrunner and executive producer. Sunil Nayar, Anna Fricke and Laura Terry also produce under their Pursued by a Bear banner.
The official synopsis for 4400 can be found below:
Over the last century at least, four thousand four hundred people who were overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized vanished without a trace off the face of the planet. Last night, inexplicably, they were all returned in an instant to Detroit, MI, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them. As the government races to understand the phenomenon, analyze the potential threat, and contain the story, an empathetic social worker (Joseph David-Jones, “Arrow”) and hardened community corrections officer (Ireon Roach, “Candyman”) are among the civil servants called upon to deal with the uncanny refugees. The new partners clash in ideology and approach, but gradually find they have more in common than they thought as they become familiar with those under their care, including: a lawyer and resilient young mother from the early aughts (Brittany Adebumola, “Grand Army”), whose unexpected reunion with her estranged husband (Cory Jeacoma, “Jersey Boys”) and suddenly teenaged daughter is immediately rocky; a WWI Army surgeon fresh from the Harlem Renaissance (TL Thompson, Broadway’s “Straight White Men”); an influential hidden figure from the Mississippi civil rights movement (Jaye Ladymore, “Empire”); a black sheep reverend-scion born to a notable televangelist family in 1990s Chicago (Derrick A. King, “Call Your Mother”); a seemingly shallow but misunderstood D-list reality TV star (newcomer Khailah Johnson) from Miami, circa 2015; and two wildly different unaccompanied teens, a vibrant girl (newcomer Autumn Best) whose bell bottoms give away her 1970s upbringing, and an introspective, prescient boy (Amarr Wooten, “Liv and Maddie”) whose origin remains a mystery. These unwilling time travelers, collectively the 4400, must grapple with their impossible new reality, the fact that they’ve been returned with a few…upgrades, and the increasing likelihood that they were brought back now for a reason they’re only beginning to understand.
Created and written by Ariana Jackson, 4400 stars Joseph David-Jones, Ireon Roach, Brittany Adebumola, Cory Jeacoma, TL Thompson, Jaye Ladymore, Derrick A. King, Khailah Johnson, Amarr Wooten and Autumn Best. The series will air Mondays this fall on The CW.
Source: The CW