Fans of John Carpenter’s The Fog may want to hit the seas with Amazon’s new supernatural series, “The Rig”, which has been given the green light with John Strickland (“Line of Duty”, “Bodyguard”) set to helm the six-part show, reports Deadline.

“The series is set onboard the Kishorn Bravo oil rig, stationed off the Scottish coast in the dangerous waters of the North Sea. When the crew are due to return to the mainland, a mysterious and all-enveloping fog rolls through and they find themselves cut off from all communication with the shore and the outside world. As they endeavor to discover what’s driving this force, bonds are broken, allegiances formed and generational fault lines exposed.”

The project comes from new writer David Macpherson and UK producer Wild Mercury Productions, which has credits including Troy: Fall of a City and “Humans” season three.

“’The Rig’ is a character-driven, epic thriller, full of heart-grabbing action and bold, original ideas,” said Derek Wax, Managing Director of Wild Mercury.

“’The Rig’ is a brilliant story, expertly told, in the most dramatic of settings,” adds Georgia Brown, Director of European Amazon Originals for Prime Video. “It asks searching questions about nature and the environment, about what it takes to survive and to be human, which feels very pertinent to the world we are living in now.”

“The Rig” will become the first Amazon Original filmed exclusively in Scotland when it shoots at FirstStage Studios, the new film and TV studio space in Edinburgh, next year.

Casting is currently underway.