The first episodes of Under the Dome will begin filming next month and we have details on how you could become an extra. Production will take place in Wilmington, North Carolina starting in March and they are looking for a multiple people to take part as recurring extras. Vanessa Neimeyere is handling the search for extras and posted an update to her Facebook page recently with all the details:

"I will need a group of people that will work a lot over the next 6 months and be established faces that we see over and over. Please submit to utdextras@gmail.com I need the following info to be considered: FULL NAME, AGE, PHONE NUMBER, LOCATION, AVAILABILITY ie school, work, exc... HEAD AND BODY SHOT, SIZES AND MEASUREMENTS, TYPE OF VEHICLE YOU DRIVE, MAKE & MODEL. SUBJECT LINE: "A/S/L" CLARIFICATION I WANT YOU TO WRITE, YOUR AGE, YOUR SEX AND YOUR LOCATION IN THE SUBJECT LINE. AGE/SEX/LOCATION.

We are very interested in character faces, diverse ethnicity, 30 years and up crowd. We start filming starting the beginning of March. I have not started casting for stand ins yet, I will once I get the full breakdown on them. Extras pay rate is 64/8."

Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will be directing the first episode and the story has been adapted by Brian K. Vaughan. CBS has placed a 13-episode order for the Under the Dome TV series, with the first episode airing on June 24th. To read the first casting details, visit our earlier coverage at:

For those that haven’t read the 1000+ page novel, Under the Dome was released in 2009 and involves a Maine town that has been cut off from the world by an invisible dome:

“Just down Route 119 in Chester’s Mill, Maine, all hell is about to break loose… On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day, a small town is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and rain down flaming wreckage. A gardener’s hand is severed as the dome descends. Cars explode on impact. Families are separated, and panic mounts. No one can fathom what the barrier is, where it came from, and when — or if — it will go away. Now a few intrepid citizens, led by an Iraq vet turned short-order cook, face down a ruthless politician dead set on seizing the reins of power under the dome. But their main adversary is the dome itself. Because time isn’t just running short. It’s running out.”

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