Hulu has released a new teaser trailer for its original star-studded horror anthology Monsterland. The series, which is officially synopsized as “encounters with… strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts,” will air eight episodes, each of which is set in a different American city.
Particular episodes include “Iron River, MI,” where Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) plays a woman who has returned to her small hometown for her wedding, but runs into the unsolved mystery of her best friend’s disappearance, and “Newark, New Jersey,” with Mike Coulter (Luke Cage) as a father who’s unable to move on after his daughter goes missing. The first episode, “Port Fourchon, LA,” stars Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart) as a single mother stuck in a small town, who meets a mysterious stranger (Jonathan Tucker, Westworld) that might give her a chance to change her circumstances.
Monsterland also features Nicole Beharie (Black Mirror, Sleepy Hollow), Taylor Schilling (Orange is the New Black), Adepero Oduye (12 Years a Slave), Roberta Colindrez (Fun Home), Charlie Tahan (Ozark), and Hamish Linklater (The New Adventures of Old Christine).
Monsterland was created for Annapurna Television by Mary Laws, producer and writer on AMC’s Preacher, and author of the original screenplay for Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2016 permanent mindscrew The Neon Demon. Laws is listed as an executive producer on Monsterland, as well as writing four of its eight episodes. The entirety of Monsterland was filmed in Kingston, New York, in November of 2019.
The show is based on North American Lake Monsters, a 2013 collection by American writer Nathan Ballingrud. One of the stories, “The Monsters of Heaven,” won 2007’s Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story. Another work by Ballingrud, the 2013 novella The Visible Filth, became the basis for the 2019 horror film Wounds, starring Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beetz. Ballingrud’s most recent release is Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, a 2019 collection that includes The Visible Filth.
Wounds‘ writer/director, Babak Anvari, and producer, Lucan Toh, are also executive producers on Monsterland, alongside Annapurna founder Megan Ellison (Zero Dark Thirty, Phantom Thread), and Sue Naegle, former president of HBO Entertainment.
This is Annapurna’s second major television production in 2020, after David Simon’s The Plot Against America for HBO in March. Its next major release, besides Monsterland, is the comedy-drama feature film Kajillionaire, starring Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger, and Gina Rodriguez. Following strong reviews at Sundance in January, Kajillionaire will (inexplicably) release in theaters on September 25th and on video-on-demand services on October 16th.
All eight episodes of Monsterland are scheduled to premiere exclusively on Hulu on October 2nd.
Source: Digital Spy
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