SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon Studios today announced it has greenlit two new pilots—the half hour dramatic comedy The Cosmopolitans, from Whit Stillman, and one hour drama Hand of God from Executive Producers Marc Forster, Ben Watkins, Ron Perlman, Brian Wilkins and Jeff King—for its third pilot season debuting later this year on Amazon Instant Video. Customers will once again be invited to watch and provide feedback on the shows they want to see turned into full series, which will then become available on Prime Instant Video. Additional pilots joining The Cosmopolitans and Hand of God in the third pilot season will be announced in the coming weeks.
“We’re very pleased to be working with Whit, Ron, Ben, and Marc on developing these pilots,” said Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. “The Cosmopolitans and Hand of God both contain rich stories and deep characters that we think customers will really enjoy. I’m looking forward to seeing our customers’ reactions when they debut.”
The Cosmopolitans
Written, directed and produced by
Academy Award nominee Whit
Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of
Disco), The Cosmopolitans follows a group of young American
expatriates in Paris searching for love and friendship in a foreign
city. The dramatic comedy pilot stars Adam
Brody as “Jimmy,” Chloë
Sevigny as “Vicky,” Carrie
MacLemore as “Aubrey,” Dree
Hemingway as “Camille,” Freddy
Åsblom as “Fritz,” Shaun
Evans as “Hal,” and Adriano
Giannini as “Sando.” The Cosmopolitans begins shooting this
week in Paris.
Hand of God
Marking the television debut of renowned
filmmaker Marc
Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, World
War Z) and written by Ben
Watkins, Hand of God stars Golden Globe winner Ron
Perlman in his first lead television role since Sons of Anarchy as
“Judge Pernell Harris.” Hand of God also stars Dana
Delany as the Judge’s protective wife “Crystal Harris,” Garret
Dillahunt as “KD,” the born-again sociopath, whose violent
tendencies are exploited by Pernell, Andre
Royo as the slick, smart, gregarious, and greedy mayor “Robert
‘Bobo’ Boston,” Alona
Tal as Pernell’s grieving daughter-in-law “Jocelyn Harris,” Julian
Morris as the questionable preacher “Paul Dobson,” Elizabeth
McLaughlin as the preacher’s sultry girlfriend “Alicia,” and Emayatzy
Corinealdi as Pernell’s call girl / confidante “Tessie.” The show
centers on the powerful Judge Harris, a hard-living, law-bending married
man with a high-end call girl on the side, who suffers a mental
breakdown, and goes on a vigilante quest to find the rapist who tore his
family apart. With no real evidence to go on, Pernell begins to rely on
"visions" and “messages” he believes are being sent by God through
Pernell's ventilator-bound son. Forster, Watkins, Perlman, Wilkins
and King serve as Executive Producers, and Jillian
Kugler as co-Executive Producer. Hand of God begins shooting
this week in the Los Angeles and Long Beach areas.
About Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios launched in 2010 as a
new way to develop feature films and episodic series—one that’s open to
great ideas from creators and audiences around the world. Anyone can
upload a script and will then be notified within 45 days if that script
is optioned. Amazon Studios will read and review all submissions and
those who choose to make their projects public will also receive
feedback from the Amazon Studios community.
More than 23,000 movie and approximately 6,000 series projects have been submitted to Amazon Studios. Amazon Studios continues to invite series creators to upload their proposals for comedy and children’s programming at http://studios.amazon.com/getting-started/series or submit them privately via Amazon Studios.
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