The primary trailer for Amazon’s Utopia is one half apocalyptic nightmare, two components acid journey journey. From Gillian Flynn, the creator of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects, the eight-episode conspiracy thriller follows a cultish group of diehard followers of a comic book ebook sequence, Utopia, who notice the catastrophic occasions predicted in comics are literally coming true, akin to a pandemic that kicks off the top of the world — yeah, it is just a little near dwelling, however the present seems to be so good that we’re nonetheless into it.
With a purpose to save the world, the comedian ebook followers — performed by Ashleigh LaThrop, Dan Byrd, Jessica Rothe, Desmin Borges, and Javon Walton — staff up with an professional on the virus (performed by Rainn Wilson). Within the trailer, the believers within the comics’ prophetic powers pose the tough query, “How a lot evil do it’s important to do to do good?” To which Wilson’s character fairly emphatically argues, “None! None evil!” We’ll have to attend for this epic sequence to premiere to see if that really proves true.
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The trailer additionally offers us just a few peeks at John Cusack, who stars as a charismatic and media savvy biotech genius, who may simply be the engineer behind this insanity. This marks Cusack’s first sequence common position for tv. Utopia additionally stars Farrah Mackenzie, Christopher Denham, and Cory Michael Smith.
Utopia premieres Friday, Sept. 25 on Amazon.
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