Amazon Prime Video has released some new teasers at San Diego Comic-Con about their upcoming fantasy series, Carnival Row, which stars Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne.
Carnival Row is set in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological immigrant creatures. Feared by humans, they are forbidden to live, love, or fly with freedom. But even in darkness, hope lives, as a human detective and a faerie rekindle a dangerous affair. The city’s uneasy peace collapses when a string of murders reveals a monster no one could imagine.
At San Diego Comic-Con, two new teasers were released which tell the story of our two main characters, Vignette Stonemoss and Rycroft “Philo” Philostrate. In the teasers, we see both sides of their worlds as Delevingne plays a faerie who falls in love with Bloom’s character, a human soldier who goes on to become a detective.
The series was initially picked up in 2015 by Amazon Prime with the series set to be co-written, executive produced, and directed by Guillermo del Toro. The script was co-written with Travis Beacham and Rene Echeverria with it initially based on a feature script that Beacham wrote in 2005. However, the trio worked on trying to make it into a film, but the rights reverted back to Beacham. Del Toro stepped away from the project in 2017, but still serves as an executive producer.
The series stars Orlando Bloom (The Lord of The Rings), Cara Delevingne (Suicide Squad), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), David Gyasi (Interstellar), Karla Crome (Under The Dome), Tamzin Merchant (Salem), Scott Reid (Still Game), and Jared Harris (Chernobyl).
Carnival Row premieres August 30th on Amazon Prime Video with eight episodes.
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