One of a handful of pilots featuring black actors in lead roles that were ordered to series, NBC’s action-adventure "The Player" (it was initially titled "Endgame"), which hails from the producers of "Leverage" and "The Blacklist," and stars Philip Winchester and Wesley Snipes, is what the network calls an action-packed Las Vegas thriller about a former military operative turned security expert (Winchester) who is drawn into a high-stakes game where an organization of wealthy individuals gamble on his ability to stop some of the biggest crimes imaginable from playing out.
Snipes plays the highly intelligent, analytical,…
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