Amazon Prime Video has released the first featurette for executive producer Jordan Peele’s Hunters, offering us a behind-the-scenes look at what the viewers should expect to see in the forthcoming action-thriller series. Featuring interviews by creator David Weil and some of the cast led by Al Pacino and Logan Lerman, you can check out the video below!
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Hunters’ A-list cast includes Logan Lerman as Jonah Heidelbaum and Al Pacino, making it his first-ever television role. Emmy Award-nominated actor Dylan Baker (The Good Wife), Jerrika Hinton (Grey’s Anatomy), Greg Austin (Class), Catherine Tate (The Office), Josh Radnor (Rise), Tiffany Boone (Beautiful Creatures), and Saul Rubinek (Warehouse 13) will also star along with Academy Award nominees Lena Olin (Enemies) and Carol Kane (Hester Street). The cast also includes Kate Mulvany (The Great Gatsby), James Le Gros (Drugstore Cowboy), Ebony Obsidian (If Beale Street Could Talk), Caleb Emery (Little), Henry Hunter Hall (When They See Us), and Jeannie Berlin (The Night Of).
The series has been given a direct-to-series order and will have 10 hour-long episodes. Hunters will tell the story of a group known as the Hunters living in New York City in 1977. The Hunters discover that hundreds of former high-ranking Nazi officials are living among them and conspiring to create the Fourth Reich in the U.S. The group then sets out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans. The story is inspired by real-life events.
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Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment are producing The Hunt, while Peele and Win Rosenfeld (Dark Net) are executive producing for Monkeypaw. Tom Lesinski (Mr. Mercedes) and Jenna Santoianni for Sonar will also serve as executive producers.
Hunters will be available for streaming on February 21 on Amazon Prime Video.
