NBC has picked up Lincoln, inspired by Jeffery Deaver's novel The Bone Collector, featuring former NYPD detective and forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme, Variety reported. The cast includes Russell Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel, Brían F. O'Byrne, Tate Ellington, Courtney Grosbeck, Ramses Jimenez, Brooke Lyons, Roslyn Ruff, and Michael Imperioli.
VJ Boyd and Mark Bianculli will write and executive produce, with Seth Gordon directing and exec producing. Lincoln is produced by Universal Television and Sony Pictures Television, in association with Keshet Studios. The Bone Collector was previously adapted into the 1999 film starring starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.