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  • Prime Video’s ‘The Boys’ Official Teaser Trailer

    Prime Video’s ‘The Boys’ Official Teaser Trailer

    Amazon

    That is the question explored in Amazon’s upcoming series “The Boys,” based on Garth Ennis’ irreverent comic books.

    The first teaser trailer (which is definitely NSFW) sets up a world where superheroes — who are as popular as celebrities, influential as politicians, and revered as gods — abuse their powers rather than use them for good.

    A group of vigilantes known as The Boys work to take down the corrupt heroes with no more than their blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty. They also embark on a quest to expose the truth about superhero team The Seven and Vought, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages the superheroes and covers up all of their dirty secrets.

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    The cast members includes Jack Quaid, Karl Urban, Chace Crawford, Jessie T. Usher,  and Elisabeth Shue. The showrunner is Eric Kripke, creator of “Supernatural” and “Timeless,” and Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are on board as executive producers.

    “The Boys” premieres July 26 on Amazon Prime.

  • John Cusack to Star in ‘Utopia,’ His First-Ever TV Series

    John Cusack to Star in ‘Utopia,’ His First-Ever TV Series

    Entertainment One

    John Cusack is headed to Amazon for his very first television series.

    The star of “Say Anything,” “Grosse Pointe Blank,” and “Being John Malkovich,” has joined “Utopia,” a remake of the British series of the same name.

    The series is about a group of young adults who are hunted by a shadowy deep state organization after they come into possession of a near-mythical cult underground graphic novel. They discover the conspiracy theories in the comic’s pages may actually help them save the world.

    Cusack will star as Dr. Kevin Christie, a brilliant biotech mind who wants to change the world through science.  Which sounds like he’s playing the bad guy. He joins Rainn Wilson and Sasha Lane (“American Honey”), who’ve already been cast.

    Producers include Gillian Flynn (who wrote”Gone Girl” and the screenplay for “Widows”) and Dennis Kelly, who created the British series.

    Among Cusack’s recent films of note: Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq,” “Love & Mercy” (in which he played reclusive Beach Boy Brian Wilson), and David Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars.”

    Some trivia for you: Cusack and Wilson both costarred in the 2001 comedy “America’s Sweethearts.”

    [Via Variety]

     

  • Amazon Renews ‘Hanna’ For a Second Season

    Amazon Renews ‘Hanna’ For a Second Season

    Amazon

    More “Hanna” is coming your way soon.

    Amazon has renewed the thriller series, which stars Esmé Creed-Miles as the genetically enhanced teen assassin, for a second season.

    “I am very much looking forward to taking Hanna on the next stage of her journey,” creator David Farr said in a statement. “The next season will take us into a whole new imaginative world. I can’t wait to explore fresh terrain for this lonely young woman who wants only to belong, but who has to fight every day just to survive.”

    “Hanna” is based on the 2011 film of the same name, which starred Saoirse Ronan.

    Joel Kinnaman plays her father, Erik, who raised her in isolation to be a skilled fighter. Mireille Enos plays their nemesis, CIA operative Marissa Wiegler, who’s spent years trying to track down Hanna and her father.

    The show debuted last month on Amazon with eight episodes.

    [Via TVLine]

  • Jeffrey Tambor’s ‘Transparent’ Character to Die in Series Finale

    Jeffrey Tambor’s ‘Transparent’ Character to Die in Series Finale

    Jeffrey Tambor in Transparent
    Amazon Studios

    Amazon’s “Transparent” is slated to return for a musical series finale this fall, and creator Jill Soloway has at last revealed how the episode will handle the absence of Jeffrey Tambor after his firing last year.

    Soloway spoke about their plans with The Los Angeles Times, telling the publication that Tambor’s character, Maura Pfefferman, will die early in the series finale. Fans will then see the remaining family members mourn, which Soloway indicated mirrors what the cast and crew went through in real life.

    “We all had to process together,” the creator told The Times. “It was important [for the show] to go through all those stages. The show has always been a reflection of who we were and we were mourning our own narrative.”

    Tambor was ousted from the show in February 2018 after there were allegations of sexual misconduct against him. (He denied the accusations when they came to light in late 2017.) Without him, his co-stars Judith Light (Shelly), Amy Landecker (Sarah), Jay Duplass (Josh), and Gaby Hoffmann (Ali) will close out the Pfeffermans’ “Transparent” story. They’ll be joined by Kathryn Hahn, Cherry Jones, Melora Hardin, Tig Notaro, Rob Huebel, and Trace Lysette, all of whom have appeared on the show before.

    The final chapter takes a different approach than the ones before it in that it’s a musical episode. The songs serve a very specific purpose: “We felt like we needed a different way of looking at the family,” Soloway said.

    The series finale’s premiere date remains to be announced.

    [via: The LA Times]

    This article has been updated.

  • ‘Too Old to Die Young’ Trailer Introduces Nicolas Winding Refn’s Amazon Series

    ‘Too Old to Die Young’ Trailer Introduces Nicolas Winding Refn’s Amazon Series

    Columbia Pictures

    “Drive” and “Neon Demon” director Nicolas Winding Refn is back for tell another moody, gritty, neon-lit L.A. story, this time in the form of the Amazon series “Too Old to Die Young.”

    “Society’s fallen, it’s all collapsing around us,” Miles Teller says in the show’s first trailer.

    Teller plays a cop who gets involved with L.A.’s seedy criminal underbelly after killing a woman. The movie follows “characters’ existential journeys from being killers to becoming samurais in the city of angels,” according to the logline.

    Exactly what that means, it’s hard to say. But the trailer looks both gorgeous and deteriorated, as Refn’s work usually does. The show also stars John Hawkes, Jena Malone, and William Baldwin.

    “Too Old to Die Young” premieres June 14 on Amazon.

  • Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV Series Reveals Setting and Time

    Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV Series Reveals Setting and Time

    New Line

    Amazon’s upcoming “Lord of the Rings” television series is going back — way back — in Middle-Earth history.

    The show’s official Twitter account has been teasing fans by slowly updating a blank, interactive map of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world. There was some speculation that the series would focus on a young Aragorn, the human ranger played by Viggo Mortenson in Peter Jackson’s movies.

    Instead, a final update to the map on Thursday revealed that the show will be set many years before the films.

    “Welcome to the Second Age,” reads the tweet. The movies take place in the Third Age (and briefly in the Fourth Age, after the ring is destroyed).

    The update revealed the island of Númenor in the lower left hand corner of the map.  In “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Númenor has been destroyed for thousands of years.

    The Second Age spans over 3,000 years and ends with the first downfall of the evil wizard Sauron (which is briefly touched upon in a prologue in Jackson’s trilogy). So, Amazon’s series could follow Sauron’s rise to power, humans and elves banding together in the Last Alliance, the destruction of Númenor, and the forging of the rings of power.

  • ‘Late Night’ Trailer Teams Up Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling in Talk Show Comedy

    ‘Late Night’ Trailer Teams Up Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling in Talk Show Comedy

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    Amazon

    The “Late Night” scene is getting a new look.

    The first trailer for the Sundance darling starring Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling has arrived. The comedy debuted in January at the festival to much acclaim and was snatched up by Amazon for a tab of $13 million.

    Thompson plays late night talk show host Katherine Newbury, whose world is turned upside down when she attempts to address diversity issues by hiring her first female staff writer (Mindy Kaling). Generational clashes ensue, all while rumors swirl that the host will soon be replaced.

    Think “Devil Wears Prada,” but with David Letterman or Jay Leno as the boss.

    Kaling wrote and produced the film, and the trailer bears all the hallmarks of her snappy, clever humor. John Lithgow, Amy Ryan, Ike Barinholtz, Hugh Dancy, and Denis O’Hare also star.

    “Late Night” opens in theaters June 17.

  • ‘Good Omens’ Trailer Unleashes Armageddon on the World

    ‘Good Omens’ Trailer Unleashes Armageddon on the World

    Amazon

    Armageddon is upon us.

    Amazon unveiled the trailer for the fantasy dramedy series “Good Omens,” which brings the end times and the Antichrist to Earth.

    Adapted from the 1990 cult classic novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, the story follows persnickety angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and rebellious demon Crowley (David Tennant) who have formed an unlikely friendship spanning 6,000 years.

    The duo — who have grown fond of life on Earth — must now join forces to find a way to save the world.

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    The trailer is filled with cheeky quips and shows off the chemistry between Sheen and Tennant. We also get quite a bit of Jon Hamm deploying dry humor as the Purple Angel.

    The series also stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the voice of Satan, Frances McDormand as the voice of God, Brian Cox as Death, Mireille Enos as War, and Nick Offerman as U.S. Ambassador.

    “Good Omens” premieres May 31 on Amazon Prime Video.

  • ‘The Man in the High Castle’ to End After Season 4 on Amazon

    ‘The Man in the High Castle’ to End After Season 4 on Amazon

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    The upcoming fourth season of Amazon series “The Man in the High Castle” will be its last, the streaming service announced this week.

    The series, based on the Philip K. Dick novel by the same name, explores an alternate history where the Nazis and Axis powers were victorious in World War II, and stars Alexa Davalos, Joel De La Fuente, Brennan Brown, Chela Horsdal, Jason O’Mara, and Rufus Sewell. Executive producer Isa Dick Hackett — who is Dick’s daughter — said in a statement that it was “a great privilege … to bring my father’s classic novel to life, particularly during this tumultuous period in our real world,” and promised that “fans will be thrilled and satisfied by the epic conclusion we have in store for them.”

    According to Amazon Studios, season four of the “The Man in the High Castle” will be “rocked by war and revolution.” Production is currently underway on the final episodes, which are set to debut sometime this fall.

    For fans who are sad to see the series go, there was a silver lining to Amazon’s announcement: More Dick-penned content will be headed their way in the future. Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke said in a statement that the streamer would continue its partnership with Dick Hackett’s Electric Shepherd Productions to make additional adaptations of Dick’s novels. Stay tuned to see which work will be featured next.

    [via: Variety]

  • ‘A League of Their Own’ Series: Amazon Promises ‘Nods to the Original’

    ‘A League of Their Own’ Series: Amazon Promises ‘Nods to the Original’

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    Columbia Pictures

    Amazon is teeing up its “A League of Their Own” series, and it sounds like there will be a mix of old and new.

    At a TCA event Wednesday, Amazon TV Co-Head Vernon Sanders confirmed that the story will follow different characters from the ones featured in Penny Marshall‘s acclaimed 1992 film. He didn’t reveal plot details, but he said there will be “a group of new characters,” per Deadline. At the same time, he promised that there will be “some nods to the original.”

    Sanders’s comments are in line with what we learned in April, when reports of the project first emerged. The reported logline described a “modern take” with “the warmth, humor and DNA of the classic film.” The movie, which stars Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell, and Tom Hanks, depicts the formation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1943 and tells a fictionalized story of one of the teams, the Rockford Peaches.

    The upcoming series will be co-written by Abbi Jacobson (“Broad City”) and Will Graham (“Mozart in the Jungle”), who are also serving as executive producers.

    [via: Deadline]