The Showtime series Total Recall 2070 featured him in the leading role as David Hume, a detective partnered with a sentient and self-aware android. The series was shot in Toronto, and is a loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s legendary novels Total Recall and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The classic cult film Blade Runner was also a major influence on the series’ narrative tone and visual style, exploring themes of eugenics, class/caste systems, rule by minority, and oligarchy juxtaposed with human rights and individual rights and autonomy. Easton returned to Daytime with ABC's Port Charles, a spinoff of General Hospital that took a more supernatural turn, as he helped shape and create the vampire antagonist Caleb Morley. When Port Charles ended, Michael began work as Detective John McBain on One Life to Live in 2003 – a role he played for the next nine years. Easton reprised his One Life to Live role on General Hospital. He rejoined the GH cast on March 22, 2016 playing his current character, Dr. Hamilton Finn, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist with a penchant for waistcoats and a bearded dragon named Roxy . His performance as the character battled addiction and subsequent struggle in withdrawal and recovery earned him a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2018. Writing/Directing Easton is a prolific novelist, screenwriter and director. His 2011 graphic novel trilogy Soul Stealer was a critical success and praised by Ain't It Cool News as "Graphic Novel of the Year" in 2010. The story, combined with artist Christopher Shy's visualizations, made a collaborative partnership of words and pictures. Easton has also maintained a long friendship with Peter Straub – who had been a dedicated One Life to Live viewer. The author visited the set in New York and left a copy of Koko in Easton's mailbox. It was a novel Michael's mother had loved and which he had been reading to her during her last days of battling cancer. Years later, Easton collaborated with Straub to write the horror graphic novel The Green Woman for DC Comics. Easton's most recent solo novel is Credence, published by Blackwatch Comics. A member of the Writers Guild of America, Michael also adapted and wrote the screenplay for Daedelus is Dead, a short film based on an unfinished script by Doors legend Jim Morrison. The film has screened at more than a dozen major film festivals and