Trace Adkins Will Play Bodyguard in TV Pilot Shooting This Week in Nashville
Trace Adkins will play the role of a bodyguard named "Scared" in a TV
pilot shooting this week in Nashville. Titled Tough Trade, the original pilot is the first for EPIX, a new entertainment
venture between Viacom, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (a division of Viacom's Paramount Pictures unit) and Lionsgate. Press
materials refer to the pilot as "a provocative, contemporary one-hour drama about a three-generation Nashville music dynasty
whose penchant for drink, debauchery and divorce has left them morally corrupt and on the verge of bankruptcy. The family
with little left is pinning its hopes on its former black sheep, a budding country star turned alternative-rock heart throb."
Music producer, musician and songwriter T Bone Burnett will be the executive
music producer for the project. Burnett, whose production credits include Robert
Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand album, won five Grammy
Awards for his work on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? film soundtrack.
