Noah Wyle is going from fighting vampires in The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice to fighting aliens for Steven Spielberg. The former ER doc has signed on to the Oscar-wining filmmaker's alien invasion pilot for TNT as the leader of a "ragtag" group of rebels set to make trouble for the alien baddies.

The series will take place months after the alien force has decimated the human population of Earth, leading Wyle and friends to strike back any way they can. (Thankfully, George Lucas' name has not been mentioned in any news surrounding this upcoming sci-fi project.)

So are you cool with Spielberg casting Wyle as his new TV hero? It's a good choice. In the age of heroes like Transformers' Sam Witwicky and a revamped Dr. Who, it's fitting that Spielberg would cast a geek in the lead role. And if you don't think Wyle is a geek, then you've obviously never seen those Librarian movies where he plays a tweed-wearing librarian whose superpowers are knowledge and a love of books.

[Via The Hollywood Reporter]