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The pilot will portray famed writer Edgar Allan Poe as a detective employing unusual methods to solve crimes in 1840s Boston.
Deadline reports that Pirates of the Caribbean star McNally will play the tough and authoritative Commissioner Kyle Kilpatrick.
The actor's past television credits include roles in Midsomer Murders, Law & Order: UK and Life On Mars. He will also appear in forthcoming film The Raven, which stars John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe.
ABC's chief of scripted development Suzanne Patmore-Gibbs recently compared the tone of the Poe pilot to the network's comedy-drama Castle.
The project is currently in contention for ABC's 2011-12 television season.
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