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“Penny Dreadful” Director Paco Cabezas Returning to Direct Spinoff Series “City of Angels”
Two years after canceling “Penny Dreadful”, Showtime has ordered a spinoff of the Victorian-era drama titled “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”, and Deadline reports today that frequent main series director Paco Cabezas will be directing a handful of episodes for the spinoff.
Production on the drama series is expected to begin later this year.
Daniel Zovatto (It Follows) has been tapped to lead the new series. Zovatto will play a character named Tiago.
“A spiritual descendant of the story set in Victorian-era London, the next chapter employ a new vision, new characters and storylines. It opens in 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension. Rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil, “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” will explore an exciting mix of the supernatural and the combustible reality of that period, creating new occult myths and moral dilemmas within a genuine historical backdrop.”
John Logan is the series’ creator, writer and executive producer.
Calling all Crewmates! Paramount+ announced today the surprise premiere of its new original animated series Among Us, which was unveiled live at Summer Game Fest.
Created by Owen Dennis and produced by CBS Studios and Innersloth, all ten episodes of Among Us are now available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
The series follows “a group of eccentric, monochromatic Crewmates of a ship transporting junk across the galaxy who must root out an Impostor in their midst before they fall victim to its villainous designs.”
It’s based on the globally popular multiplayer social deception game of the same name, which has been brought to life in the brand new trailer below.
Among Us boasts a star-studded voice cast, too:
- Yvette Nicole Brown as “Orange”
- Kimiko Glenn as “Cyan”
- Liv Hewson as “Black”
- Ashley Johnson as “Purple”
- Wayne Knight as “Lime”
- Phil LaMarr as “Brown”
- Randall Park as “Red”
- Dan Stevens as “Blue”
- Debra Wilson as “Yellow” and “Computer”
- Elijah Wood as “Green”
- Patton Oswalt as “White”
Animation studio Titmouse is behind the series.
Among Us became a global sensation in 2020, generating more than 4 billion views on YouTube and over 1.22 billion viewing sessions on Twitch. In October 2020 alone, it ranked #1 on Google Play in 66 countries and #1 on iOS in 55 countries, with Top 100 placements in nearly every market worldwide. The game is available on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series.
The paranoid phenomenon now heads to Paramount+ in animated series form. Watch the new trailer below as all episodes launch on streaming today.
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