Alan Ball Casts Death Lead

Alan Ball has cast Bright Star actor Ben Whishaw as the lead in his newest mortality-related series for HBO, All Signs of Death. Whishaw will play a "twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder mystery, a femme fatale and the loose ends of his own past." Sounds intriguing...but not quite as intriguing as the role he could have had on Broadway. [Deadline]