Three new half-hour pilots will debut August 19
on Amazon Video and customers are once again invited to stream and
review the shows to help determine which will become an Amazon
Original Series
Pilots come from noted creators including Peter
Atencio, Ben Edlund, Barry Josephson, Ridley Scott, and Jill
Soloway, and star prominent actors including Kevin Bacon,
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kathryn Hahn, and Jackie Earle Haley
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced the lineup for its 2016
comedy pilot season which will debut August 19 in the US, UK,
Germany, Austria, and Japan. Amazon customers can expect more
variety than ever in an Amazon pilot season, including shows I Love
Dick, based on the renowned feminist novel about a couple’s marital
struggles in the artistic and academic community of Marfa, Texas;
Jean-Claude Van Johnson, where martial arts film star Jean-Claude
Van Damme operates under the alias of “Jean-Claude Van Johnson” to
serve as the most dangerous undercover private contractor in the
world; and The Tick, an offbeat and dark superhero tale based on
the acclaimed comic.
All Amazon customers are invited to stream and review the pilots
in order to help choose the next Amazon Original Series that are
then available to Prime members. The pilots will be available via
the Amazon Video app for TVs, connected devices including Fire TV,
and mobile devices, or online at Amazon.com/amazonvideo. Amazon
customer feedback on pilots have helped make some of the most
critically-acclaimed and popular series to date, including multi
Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning series Transparent, multi Golden
Globe-winning series Mozart in the Jungle, and the most-streamed
Amazon Original Series ever by Prime members globally, The Man in
the High Castle.
The new pilots feature prominent actors that include Kevin Bacon
(The Following), Griffin Dunne (Dallas Buyers Club), Kathryn Hahn
(Transparent), Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), Phylicia Rashad
(Creed), Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy), and
Jean-Claude Van Damme (JCVD). They come from noted creators that
include Peter Atencio (Key and Peele), Ben Edlund (Supernatural),
Barry Josephson (Bones), Ridley Scott (The Martian), and Jill
Soloway (Transparent).
“Nowhere else will voices as influential as Jill Soloway and
Jean-Claude Van Damme share a stage,” said Joe Lewis, Head of
Half-Hour Series, Amazon Studios. “And that’s just the Js. We’re
excited to bring such a diverse slate of pilots to customers and we
can’t wait to hear what they think.”
Amazon’s fall comedy pilot season includes the following
shows:
I Love Dick
Adapted from the cult classic I Love Dick—referred to
as “the most important book about men and women
written in the last century" (Emily Gould, The Guardian)—is set in
a colorful intellectual community in Marfa, Texas. Chris (Kathryn
Hahn, Transparent) and Sylvere (Griffin Dunne, Dallas Buyers Club),
arrive in Marfa when Sylvere is offered a fellowship to finish a
book he's been writing on the Holocaust. When they meet Dick (Kevin
Bacon, The Following), he taunts their imaginations and upends
their preconceptions about love and monogamy. An exploration of the
female gaze and how we tell stories about love and desire, I
Love Dick charts the evolution of a marriage, the awakening of
an artist and the deification of a writer named Dick. I Love
Dick is executive produced by Jill Soloway
(Transparent), Andrea Sperling (Transparent), and Sarah
Gubbins (Ten Aker Wood). The pilot is directed by Soloway and
written by Gubbins.
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
If you need to eliminate a political rival, debilitate a
multinational corporation, or overthrow an entire government—and
you need it done with the utmost secrecy—there’s only one person to
turn to: one of the most internationally recognizable movie stars
in the history of film. Jean-Claude Van Johnson stars Jean-Claude
Van Damme (JCVD) playing “Jean-Claude Van Johnson,” a global
martial arts and film sensation…and, operating under the simple
alias of “Johnson,” the most dangerous undercover private
contractor in the world. Lucky for the world’s bad guys, he’s been
retired for years…unlucky for them, a chance encounter with a
lost love is about to bring him back to the game…and this time,
he’ll be deadlier than ever. Probably.
Jean-Claude Van Johnson stars Van Damme along with Kat
Foster (Your Family or Mine), Moises Arias (The Middle),
and Phylicia Rashad (Creed). The show is executive
produced by Peter Atencio (Key and Peele), Ridley
Scott (The Good Wife), David W. Zucker (The Man in the High
Castle) and Van Damme. From Scott Free Productions, the pilot is
directed by Atencio and written
by Dave Callaham (Mortal Kombat).
The Tick
In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an
underdog accountant with zero powers comes to realize his city is
owned by a global super villain long-thought dead. As he struggles
to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue
superhero. The Tick stars Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the
Galaxy), Griffin Newman (Vinyl), Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen),
Valorie Curry (House of Lies), Yara Martinez (Jane the Virgin) and
Brendan Hines (Scorpion). The Tick is executive produced by Ben
Edlund (Supernatural), Barry Josephson (Bones) and Barry Sonnenfeld
(A Series of Unfortunate Events), directed by Wally Pfister (The
Dark Knight), and written by Edlund. The Tick is a co-production
with Sony Pictures Television.
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