Amazon Gives Series Orders To The Tick, Jean-Claude Van Johnson & I Love Dick
Amazon have greenlit 3 new comedy series from this year’s pilot crop. The Tick, Jean-Claude Van Johnson & I Love Dick.
The Tick stars Guardians of the Galaxy actor (and voice of Darth Maul) Peter Serafinowicz as the blue suited superhero, who enters the life of Arthur Everest (Griffin Newman – Vinyl), an underdog accountant with zero powers, who comes to realize his city is owned by a global super villain long-thought dead. Also stars Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen, Preacher), Valorie Curry (House of Lies), Yara Martinez (Jane the Virgin) and Brendan Hines (Scorpion, Suits, Lie To Me).
The show is written and exec produced by The Tick’s creator Ben Edlund (Supernatural), and directed by the great Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight, Transcendence).
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 Damme stars as 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.
And finally I Love Dick. Adapted from the classic cult novel by Chris Kraus, the show 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.
The show is described as ‘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.
All 3 shows will air in 2017 as Amazon Original Series on Amazon Prime, but you can watch the pilots on Amazon Prime right now.
