Prime Video has officially ordered ‘Bishop’, a new original crime thriller that will star Joel Kinnaman (For All Mankind, Altered Carbon, The Killing). The series comes from co-creators and executive producers Little Marvin (Them) and Tony Saltzman (Dexter: Resurrection), alongside Vertigo and Amazon MGM Studios.
In ‘Bishop’, Kinnaman plays homicide detective Bishop Graves, a brilliant yet battle-scarred investigator whose latest case pushes him to the edge. Tasked with tracking down an audacious killer targeting San Francisco’s wealthy elite, Bishop soon discovers the murders may tie back to the city’s most powerful man, his own father, Lincoln Graves. As the killer’s actions begin to inspire a cult-like following among the city’s underclass, the detective is pulled into a deeply personal and dangerous investigation.
“Little Marvin and Tony Saltzman have created a truly electric crime drama,” said Nick Pepper, Head of US SVOD TV & Development Series, Amazon MGM Studios. “We are thrilled to see Joel Kinnaman bring the titular Detective Bishop Graves to life. Paired with our outstanding collaborators Roy Lee and Miri Yoon from Vertigo, Bishop is poised to captivate and surprise our global Prime Video customers.”
Little Marvin will also serve as showrunner. The project comes out of his overall deal with Amazon MGM Studios, which has already produced his horror anthology ‘Them’.
For fans of ‘For All Mankind’, the news does raise questions about Kinnaman’s future in that Apple TV+ sci-fi epic. His character Ed Baldwin will be 81 years old when Season 5 begins (and no, we STILL don’t have a premiere date for it…) Given the show’s structure of jumping forward a decade each season, that would leave Ed at 91 in a potential Season 6. It is not impossible to picture him still wandering around the Martian colony, but it feels far more likely that Season 5 may mark Kinnaman’s exit. Unless the writers pull off a truly out-there sci-fi twist, like transferring Ed into an android body, but that seems very unlikely.
Kinnaman also has another Apple TV+ project on the way, starring opposite Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Kerry Washington (Scandal) in the limited series Imperfect Women.
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