Heroes star Adrian Pasdar has been cast in a new pilot from The X Files creator Chris Carter.

Pasdar will appear in The After, an apocalyptic drama from Amazon Studios, Deadline reports.

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Leverage's Aldis Hodge and Scream's Jamie Kennedy will also appear in the pilot, written and directed by Carter.

Pasdar will play a Beverly Hills business mogul, with Kennedy cast as a professional clown.

Hodge - recently attached to NBC's pilot The Sixth Gun - will star as an escaped convict who claims to have been wrongly convicted.

The After will be produced by Georgeville Television.

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