I Love Dick, Jean-Claude Van Johnson and The
Tick will become Amazon Original Series and will debut next year
exclusively for Amazon Prime members
Most recent pilot season was the most watched
ever and Jean-Claude Van Johnson and The Tick were available on
Twitch
New series come from visionary creators and
producers including Peter Atencio, Ben Edlund, Barry Josephson,
Ridley Scott, and Jill Soloway, and star notable actors that
include Kevin Bacon, Peter Serafinowicz, Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Kathryn Hahn, and Jackie Earle Haley
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon Studios today announced I Love Dick,
Jean-Claude Van Johnson and The Tick have been greenlit to become
Amazon Original Series. The new series will premiere exclusively on
Amazon Prime Video in 2017 in the US, UK, Germany, Austria, and
Japan for Amazon Prime members to watch as part of their membership
via the Amazon Video app for TVs, connected devices including Fire
TV, and mobile devices, or online at Amazon.com/originals.
“These pilots were vast in scope, disruptive in tone,
challenging in story and sometimes even funny,” said Joe Lewis,
Head of Half-Hour Series, Amazon Studios. “It’s rewarding to see
customers embrace them in such a huge way. We can’t wait to
premiere these series next year on Prime Video.”
The new half hour series include I Love Dick, based on the
renowned feminist novel about a couple’s marital struggles in the
artistic and academic community of Marfa, Texas; Jean-Claude Van
Johnson, where martial arts film star Jean-Claude Van Damme
operates under the alias of “Jean-Claude Van Johnson” to serve as
the most dangerous undercover private contractor in the world; and
The Tick, an offbeat and dark superhero tale based on the acclaimed
comic. Customers can watch the pilot episodes at
www.amazon.com/pilotseason.
I Love Dick
Adapted from the cult classic, I Love Dick—referred to
as “the most important book about men and women
written in the last century" (Emily Gould, The Guardian)—is set in
a colorful intellectual community in Marfa, Texas. Chris (Kathryn
Hahn, Transparent) and Sylvere (Griffin Dunne, Dallas Buyers Club)
arrive in Marfa when Sylvere is offered a fellowship to finish a
book he's been writing on the Holocaust. When they meet Dick (Kevin
Bacon, The Following), he taunts their imaginations and upends
their preconceptions about love and monogamy. An exploration of the
female gaze and how we tell stories about love and desire, I
Love Dick charts the evolution of a marriage, the awakening of
an artist and the deification of a writer named Dick. I Love
Dick is executive produced by Jill Soloway
(Transparent), Andrea Sperling (Transparent), and Sarah
Gubbins (Ten Aker Wood). The pilot was directed by Soloway and
written by Gubbins.
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
If you need to eliminate a political rival, debilitate a
multinational corporation, or overthrow an entire government—and
you need it done with the utmost secrecy—there’s only one person to
turn to: one of the most internationally recognizable movie stars
in the history of film. Jean-Claude Van Johnson stars Jean-Claude
Van Damme (JCVD) playing “Jean-Claude Van Johnson,” a global
martial arts and film sensation…and, operating under the simple
alias of “Johnson,” the most dangerous undercover private
contractor in the world. Lucky for the world’s bad guys, he’s been
retired for years…unlucky for them, a chance encounter with a
lost love is about to bring him back to the game…and this time,
he’ll be deadlier than ever. Probably.
The pilot for Jean-Claude Van Johnson starred Van Damme
along with Kat Foster (Your Family or Mine), Moises Arias (The
Middle), and Phylicia Rashad (Creed). The show is
executive produced by Peter Atencio (Key and
Peele), Ridley Scott (The Good Wife), David W. Zucker
(The Man in the High Castle) and Van Damme. From Scott Free
Productions, the pilot was directed
by Atencio, and written and created
by Dave Callaham (Mortal Kombat).
The Tick
In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an
underdog accountant with zero powers comes to realize his city is
owned by a global super villain long-thought dead. As he struggles
to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue
superhero. The pilot for The Tick starred Peter Serafinowicz
(Guardians of the Galaxy), Griffin Newman (Vinyl), Jackie Earle
Haley (Watchmen), Valorie Curry (House of Lies), Yara Martinez
(Jane the Virgin) and Brendan Hines (Scorpion). The Tick is
executive produced by Ben Edlund (Supernatural), Barry Josephson
(Bones) and Barry Sonnenfeld (A Series of Unfortunate Events),
directed by Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight), and written by Edlund.
The Tick is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television.
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