The online retail giant/streamer announced today that it is bringing three pilots – The Tick, Jean-Claude Van Johnson, and I Love Dick – to viewers on August 19.
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Ridley Scott is also stepping up for a piece of the Amazon pie with “Jean-Claude Van Johnson”, a tongue-in-cheek storyline that puts a meta spin on star Jean-Claude Van Damme’s long career as a martial arts-fueled action film star. That feedback will be used to help select the next Amazon Original Series that will be available to Prime members. The show will star Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy,) Valorie Curry (House of Lies,) Griffin Newman (Vinyl,) Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen,) Brendan Hines (Scorpion,) and Yara Martinez (Jane the Virgin).
The pilot was directed by Jill Soloway from a script by Sarah Gubbins (“Ten Aker Wood”). “And that’s just the Js”. The series centers on a couple, Chris (played by Kathryn Hahn) and Sylvere (Griffin Dunne), who move to Marfa, Texas, and meet a man named Dick (Kevin Bacon). The show also stars The Cosby Show’s Phylicia Rashad, The Middle’s Moises Arias and Weeds’ Kat Foster. “We’re excited to bring such a diverse slate of pilots to customers and we can’t wait to hear what they think”. The pilot is directed by Atencio and written by Dave Callaham (Mortal Kombat). Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker are both attached as executive producers alongside Van Damme. The Tick is executive produced by Ben Edlund, Barry Josephson and Barry Sonnenfeld, directed by Wally Pfister, and written by Edlund. The Tick is a dark superhero comedy, based on the comic of the same name, that will follow a down-and-out accountant who uncovers that his town is run by an unsavory super villain and eventually teams up with “a odd blue superhero”.
The Tick, The Tick has been iterated for TV two times before, most notably as an animated series that premiered in 1994.
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The shows will be open to Amazon subscriber reviews and could join the likes of Transparent and Mozart in the Jungle on its originals slate.
