If you were a fan of Amazon Studios’ new take on The Tick, there’s some good news for you this week as the studio has officially ordered a season two of the series.
Creator Ben Edlund and cast members Peter Serafinowicz and Griffin Newman will all return for the new season. Production will begin sometime this year, and season two will arrive in 2019.
A new trailer for Amazon’s upcoming series The Tick has arrived. The show is based on the comic of the same name by Ben Edlund, who is heavily involved both as a writer and executive producer.
Starring as The Tick this time around is Peter Serafinowicz (Shaun of the Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy). The character was previously played in a 2001 TV series adaptation by Patrick Warburton. Joining Serafinowicz on the cast is Griffin Newman, Valorie Curry, Jackie Earle Haley, Yara Martinez, Brendan Hines, Scott Speiser, and Michael Cerveris.
Click on over to the other side to read more about the new series and to check out the trailer.
In March, it was announced that Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television were developing a pilot for a live-action series based on Ben Edlund‘s superhero spoof comic book The Tick, with Edlund scripting and serving as an executive producer and British comedic genius Peter Serafinowicz (Shaun of the Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy) cast in the title role. The pilot was directed by Wally Pfister, the cinematographer on all three of Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies, Inception, and Moneyball.
Recently Amazon released both the premiere date for the pilot and a small set of images, including our first look at Serafinowicz is full Tick attire. You can check out the pictures here below.
Back in 2001 a live-action TV series based on Ben Edlund‘s comic The Tick was made with Seinfeld, Family Guy, and The Emperor’s New Groove star Patrick Warburton playing the title role. The show aired on Fox and, as shows tend to do there, only lasted nine episodes (related note #1: Edlund also worked on that other show you think of when you think of Fox shows that were canceled too early, Firefly, writing the episodes “Trash” and “Jaynestown” and also producing). But even with its short run, the show has developed a cult following.
While that show isn’t coming back to life, Amazon has ordered a pilot episode for a potential brand new series based on Edlund’s Tick character. Nothing is official yet as far as getting a full series order, but an actor has been chosen to take over the role from Warburton. It’s being reported that comedian, actor, writer, and all-around talented gentleman Peter Serafinowicz will take on the title role for the pilot.
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