Prime Video has given a straight-to-series order to the Texas-set crime thriller Calamities, from showrunner, author, and director David Weil (Hunters). He additionally government produces alongside Natalie Laine Williams by their Please Enjoy banner, and Glen Powell and Dan Cohen’s manufacturing firm Barnstorm, with Ryan Schwartz serving as co-executive producer.
The streamer touts, “Calamities is a gripping and propulsive Texas crime thriller like no other. After a drug deal explodes into violence, a quiet border town is thrust into a deadly collision course between a small-town sheriff looking for answers from her past, a sociopathic hit woman, an overly eager FBI agent, and a ruthless sect of the cartel.”
“Calamities is the unique character-rich thriller that doesn’t blink,” shared Peter Friedlander, Head of Global Television, Amazon MGM Studios. “David Weil has crafted a story that knocks the wind out of you, and we’re beyond excited to support him, Natalie, Glen, and Dan in bringing it to life on Prime.”
The collection from Amazon MGM Studios is Weil’s newest collection at Prime Video, following Hunters, Solos and Citadel. He can be the creator behind Apple TV’s Invasion. Weil not too long ago wrote Extraction 3 for Netflix, bought his co-written unique spec Supermax to Miramax, and is at the moment writing a movie about journalist Evan Gershkovich for Edward Berger and United Artists. He can be set to direct his unique script, Tyrant, for Amazon/MGM. Weil and Please Enjoy are repped by CAA and Jackoway, Austen Tyerman.
Barnstorm, based final 12 months by Powell and Cohen, not too long ago received the rights to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with A24, which features a collection adaptation from JT Mollner, together with a characteristic inside the franchise. They not too long ago wrapped season two of Chad Powers for Hulu and started manufacturing on The Comeback King, their first movie below their characteristic take care of Universal. Powell and Barnstorm are repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole LLP.
