Amazon Prime Video Greenlights Season Three of Emmy Award-Winning & Top-Streamed Original Dramatic Series The Man in the High...
January 03 2017 - 9:00AM
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Eric Overmyer will serve as showrunner and
executive producer
Season Two had the most viewers over its debut
weekend of all scripted Amazon Original Series that debuted this
year
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced it has greenlit a third
season of the original dramatic series The Man in the High Castle.
Additionally, Eric Overmyer (Treme, Bosch, The Affair) will serve
as showrunner and executive producer for this new season. Seasons
one and two of the Emmy Award-winning drama series are now
available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the US, UK, Germany
and Austria via the Amazon Prime Video app for TVs, connected
devices including Fire TV, mobile devices and online at
http://amazon.com/originals. Following in the footsteps of its
first season, Season Two of The Man in the High Castle premiered
with the most viewers over its debut weekend of all scripted Amazon
Original Series.
The Man in the High Castle stars Alexa Davalos (Mob City),
Rupert Evans (American Pastoral), Luke Kleintank (Pretty Little
Liars), DJ Qualls (Z Nation), Joel De La Fuente (Hemlock Grove),
Brennan Brown (Focus), Bella Heathcote (The Neon Demon), and Callum
Keith Rennie (Longmire), with Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Revenge) and
Rufus Sewell (Victoria). The series was developed by Frank Spotnitz
(The X-Files), with Ridley Scott (The Martian), David W. Zucker
(The Good Wife), Richard Heus (Ugly Betty), Isa Dick Hackett (The
Adjustment Bureau), and Daniel Percival (Banished) serving as
executive producers for Season Three.
“As timely as ever, the exploration of characters at a dark
point for humanity has provided incredible stories for two
seasons,” said Joe Lewis, Head of Comedy and Drama, Amazon Studios.
“Eric and his team are doing an incredible job crafting stories
about the inner lives of those who struggle to do good in a world
that is not. We couldn’t be more excited to bring season three to
customers in 2017.”
Season two has an average customer rating of 4.6 stars. Here is
what customers have been saying:
- “Set in a dystopian future where the
Allies lose the war, it is a brilliant piece with an interesting
plot line and interesting characters to match.”
- “…A terrific television drama in all of
the ways I was expecting — it's an intelligently written and
competently directed adaptation of what seems like a truly great
science fiction classic.”
- “The screenplay is mesmerizing, and the
sets beyond perfection, giving you an idea of what America would
have been.”
- “The Man in the High Castle is
phenomenal television in every sense.”
- “This show has one of the best possible
premises in the history of television.”
Based on Philip K. Dick's Hugo Award-winning 1962 alternate
history novel, season two of the one-hour drama series The Man in
the High Castle continues to explore what would have happened if
the Allied Powers had lost World War II. While Germany controls
much of the East Coast and Japan controls the West Coast, the Rocky
Mountains have become a “neutral zone”—and ground zero for a
resistance, led by a mysterious figure known only as “the Man in
the High Castle." While some citizens struggle against the fear,
oppression and inequality, others accept their lives, as
compromised and unfulfilling as they might be. But after a series
of enigmatic films surface depicting a world vastly different from
their own, some begin to question the very nature of their
reality.
Eric Overmyer has writing and producing credits that include St.
Elsewhere, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Homicide: Life on the
Street, Law & Order, The Wire, New Amsterdam and Treme, which
he created with David Simon, and adapting Amazon Original Series
Bosch for television. He has four Writers Guild nominations, three
Emmy nominations, two Edgar nominations and a Humanitas nomination.
With his colleagues, he has shared a Writers Guild award and an
Edgar award for The Wire, and a Peabody award and a PEN teleplay
award for Treme.
The first two seasons of The Man in the High Castle are now
available for Prime members to stream and enjoy using the Amazon
Prime Video app for TVs, connected devices including Amazon Fire
TV, and mobile devices, or online at Amazon.com/originals, at no
additional cost to their membership. Customers who are not already
Prime members can sign up for a free trial at www.amazon.com/prime.
For a list of all Amazon Video compatible devices, visit
www.amazon.com/howtostream.
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