American Pie‘s Chris Klein has booked a multi-episode arc on FX’s forthcoming Elijah Wood-fronted comedy Wilfred, sources confirm to TVLine exclusively.

The series, based on the hit Australian sitcom of the same name, revolves around a guy (Wood), a girl (Californication‘s Fiona Gublemann), and a human/dog hybrid named Wilfred (Jason Gann, reprising his role from the Aussie original).

Klein, who recently guest-starred on Fox’s The Good Guys, will play a love interest for Gublemann’s character.

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Actor Elijah Wood decided to take a walk in through New York City, New York on November 11, 2010 where many fans stopped him in his tracks for pictures, autographs, and just to chat. Elijah will be one busy actor with FX picking up 13 episodes of a live action comedy series, “Wilfred” and is due to hit Broadway next month to take part in the 10th annual benefit “24 Hour Plays on Broadway” where he will work with others to create six original short plays in a day.

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FX, the cable channel behind the likes of Nip/Tuck, has successfully wooed Elijah Wood to headline it’s remake of the hit Australian sitcom Wilfred.

The project, which is being adapted by Family Guy vet David Zuckerman, revolves around a guy (Wood), a girl, and a mixed-breed dog named Wilfred, whom Zuckerman describes as “part Labrador retriever and part Russell Crowe on a bender.”

Jason Gann, who co-created and starred in the Aussie version, will once again play the title role (that is, when said title role appears in human form).

This marks Wood’s first major foray into television. The Lord of the Rings vet will next be seen in the fall film The Romantics opposite Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, and Anna Paquin.

Production on the Wilfred pilot will begin later this summer.

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Pictured: Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, Elijah Wood, Alicia Keys & Queen Latifah!

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Former Hobbit Elijah Wood is to star as Iggy Pop in “The Passenger,” a biopic of the legendary rocker.

Pic is to be exec produced by Ted Hope’s This Is That Prods. and Traction Media, and repped in international territories by Oz-U.K. sales firm Becker Intl., which in Cannes is handling Directors Fortnight title “Control,” about Brit band Joy Division. Traction Media will handle rights in North America.

“Passenger,” which follows Pop’s early years with his band the Stooges, is to be helmed by Nick Gomez (“Drowning Mona”) from a script by Eric Schmid.

Pic will lense in next six months and is skedded for delivery by midsummer 2008. The $6 million-$8 million budget is being put together from a combination of pre-sales, a U.S. equity fund and tax credits from Philadelphia.

Pop has “given his blessing” to the project but will not take part in it, according to Becker’s head of finance and operations Jonathan Page.

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Elijah Wood dropped off his girlfriend Pamela Racine at LAX airport yesterday afternoon but not before showering her with a couple affectionate hugs and kisses.  Pam Racine is a drummer and dancer for Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello from New York City.  Elijah, 25, and Pam started dating in the summer of 2004.