Canadian actress Leslie Hope has landed the lead in Paranormal Activity director/producer Oren Peli’s new ABC pilot “The River.” Hope will play a television producer named Tess, who sets out to find her husband six months after he goes missing while filming a reality TV show set in the Amazon.

The show’s synopsis reads:

Tess, a world traveler and top-notch producer who, six months after her TV explorer husband Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood) goes missing in the Amazon, receives a signal from his beacon. Convinced that Emmet is alive, Tess forces her reluctant son Lincoln (Joe Anderson) to abandon his medical studies and lead a rescue expedition.

“The River” is produced by Peli with partners Jason Blum and Steven Schneider. The pilot episode will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) from a script by Peli, Michael Perry (Paranormal Activity 2), and veteran scribe Michael Green (“Heroes”), who was brought in to rewrite the original draft.

Hope has most recently held a recurring role on the CBS crime drama “The Mentalist,” but is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Teri Bauer, Jack’s doomed wife, on the Fox series ’24.’ She also starred in the Kevin Costner supernatural drama Dragonfly and director George Romero’s revenge-thriller Bruiser.