NBC announced that Sam Neill, Sean Bean and Joss Ackland will join the cast of NBC's new landmark series "Crusoe," an epic and ambitious take on Daniel Defoe's legendary tale.

"Crusoe" finds the dashing and resourceful Crusoe (Philip Winchester) after many years of being a castaway on a desert island with his companion Friday (casting to follow). "Crusoe" follows the adventures of the two island dwellers while looking in flashback at Crusoe's life before he was thrown into an isolated existence filled with danger and adventure.

Among those are his tragic childhood with widower fat...