The James Wan-produced collection Teacup, based mostly on a novel by Robert R. McCammon, promoted with a brand new teaser and pictures
The Peacock streaming service lately introduced that the primary two episodes of the James Wan-produced collection Teacup, which is an adaptation of the 1988 bestseller Stinger, written by Robert R. McCammon (choose up a duplicate HERE), are set to premiere on October 10th – and immediately, a brand new teaser trailer has arrived on-line to present us a preview of what this present has in retailer for us. You possibly can test it out within the embed above. Together with the brand new teaser comes the disclosing of promo artwork and episode photographs, and people will be discovered on the backside of this text.
Peacock will likely be releasing two episodes of Teacup weekly by way of Halloween.
McCammon’s novel has the next description: The story takes place throughout a single twenty-four hour interval in Inferno, Texas. Inferno is a city in bother, pushed to the brink by racial pressure, gang violence, and a collapsing financial system. However issues can at all times worsen, and so they accomplish that with astonishing velocity when an unidentified spacecraft crash lands within the desert outdoors of city, adopted by a second craft bearing the alien being who will quickly be referred to as Stinger. Stinger is a type of interstellar hunter on a mission he intends to finish, no matter the associated fee. He brings with him an countless array of technological marvels and an infinite capability for destruction that threaten the existence of Inferno, its inhabitants, and the bigger world past.
Teacup will observe a disparate group of individuals in rural Georgia who should come collectively within the face of a mysterious menace to outlive.
James Wan is govt producing Teacup by way of his firm Atomic Monster, alongside Michael Clear and Rob Hackett. Yellowstone consulting producer Ian McCulloch is a author and govt producer on the present. Different govt producers embody McCammon, Francisca X. Hu, Kevin Tancharoen, and E.L. Katz, who directed the primary two episodes. Danielle Bozzone is overseeing the mission for Atomic Monster. The present is coming our method from UCP, a division of Common Studio Group.
McCulloch supplied the next assertion: “When Atomic Monster first approached me about making a collection adaptation of Robert McCammon’s Stinger—a no-holds-barred, gargantuan spectacle of a novel alongside the strains of The Stand, Independence Day and Mars Assaults—to be sincere, I didn’t wish to throw my hat within the ring. I’m not a spectacle author. I’m a less-is-more author. I gravitate extra towards what are referred to as keyhole epics. Massive tales instructed by way of small lenses. Assume Indicators, The Factor, A Quiet Place. However right here’s the factor. I learn Stinger and it stayed with me. Wouldn’t depart me alone. I simply couldn’t cease fascinated with its razor-sharp premise, the way it unfolds over the course of a single harrowing day, and in regards to the relatable and actual household McCammon places heart stage. That’s when the flash bang-light bulb concept hit… What if I tailored Stinger in a method that honors the guide and stays true to the sorts of tales I like to inform? Hold the self-esteem. Hold Stinger’s handiest components. Take away the big ensemble. Take away the enormous set items. Even take away the guide’s crowded city setting. The variation could be like an acoustic guitar model of, say, a Radiohead music. It gained’t have the manufacturing worth, digital devices, loops, or synthesized bells and whistles however it can nonetheless have the melody, the construction, the lyrics, the actual magic on the core, all of the stuff that makes an incredible music a nice music. All of which is to say I might abruptly see precisely what to do and find out how to do it. Two weeks later, Atomic Monster had the script for the primary episode. Quickly after that, Peacock purchased it. Not so lengthy after that, each my artistic and profession desires really began coming true as extra scripts had been written, hires made, actors solid, units constructed, and manufacturing started… After all, throughout manufacturing the collection modified and developed. Simply because it ought to. Even the title’s completely different. Stinger is now Teacup. The explanations for this are too spoilery to share however watch the primary few episodes and all will likely be revealed. Level being, the collection is now very a lot its personal factor: a puzzle-box thriller, an edge-of-your-seat thriller, a can’t-but-must look horror story, a household drama, a science fiction epic—of the keyhole selection, after all. However as singular, unusual, and stunning as I hope Teacup is, all it is advisable do is peel away the layers, characters, conditions, and mythology and look behind the thrills, chills, hairpin turns and make-you gasp reveals. Do all that and also you’ll see, at its coronary heart, Teacup continues to be very a lot standing on the shoulders of Stinger. Simply because it ought to.“
Wan added: “After studying Robert McCammon’s guide Stinger, your entire workforce at Atomic Monster felt a spark. The story had all of the components for a charming collection and Ian McCulloch had a imaginative and prescient to convey it to life in a contemporary method that was each startling and darkly atmospheric, however stuffed with a wealthy sense of humanity — typically missing in edgy narratives. Add in our extremely gifted solid led by Yvonne Strahovski, Scott Speedman and Chaske Spencer and followers are in for a real edge-of-your-seat expertise. Teacup defies simple labels. It’s a genre-bending mix of horror, thriller, and drama, with layers that unfold like a charming puzzle. It goes past chills and thrills and holds up a mirror to humanity, exploring the darkness that resides inside us all. We hope you take pleasure in this wild trip as a lot as we’ve cherished creating it!“
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