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Peacock has released a afloat trailer for nan James Wan-produced scary thriller bid Teacup, which follows a disparate group of group successful agrarian Georgia who must travel together successful nan look of a mysterious threat successful bid to survive. It’s Inspired by nan bestselling novel Stinger by Robert McCammon.
The bid stars Yvonne Strahovski, Scott Speedman, Chaske Spencer, Kathy Baker, Boris McGiver, Caleb Dolden, Emilie Bierre, and Luciano Leroux.
Ian McCulloch (Yellowstone, Deputy, Chicago Fire) is nan bid writer and showrunner, and he shared nan pursuing penetration connected nan project:
“When Atomic Monster first approached maine astir creating a bid adjustment of Robert McCammon’s Stinger—a no-holds-barred, gargantuan spectacle of a caller on nan lines of The Stand, Independence Day and Mars Attacks—to beryllium honest, I didn’t want to propulsion my chapeau successful nan ring.
“I’m not a spectacle writer. I’m a less-is-more writer. I gravitate much toward what are known arsenic keyhole epics. Large stories told done mini lenses. Think Signs, The Thing, A Quiet Place.
“But here’s nan thing. I read Stinger and it stayed pinch me. Wouldn’t time off maine alone. I conscionable couldn’t extremity reasoning astir its razor-sharp premise, really it unfolds complete nan people of a azygous harrowing day, and astir nan relatable and real family McCammon puts halfway stage. That’s erstwhile nan flash bang-light bulb thought hit.
“What if I adapted Stinger in a measurement that honors nan book and stays existent to nan kinds of stories I for illustration to tell? Keep nan conceit. Keep Stinger’s most effective elements. Take distant nan ample ensemble. Take distant nan elephantine group pieces. Even return distant nan book’s crowded municipality setting.
“The adjustment would beryllium for illustration an acoustic guitar type of, say, a Radiohead song. It won’t person nan accumulation value, physics instruments, loops, aliases synthesized bells and whistles but it will still person nan melody, nan structure, nan lyrics, nan existent magic astatine nan core, each nan worldly that makes a awesome opus a great song.
“All of which is to opportunity I could abruptly spot precisely what to do and really to do it. Two weeks later, Atomic Monster had nan book for nan first episode.
“Soon aft that, Peacock bought it. Not truthful agelong aft that, some my imaginative and profession dreams really started coming existent arsenic much scripts were written, hires made, actors cast, sets built, and accumulation began…
“Of course, during accumulation nan bid changed and evolved. Just arsenic it should. Even nan title’s different. Stinger is now Teacup. The reasons for this are excessively spoilery to stock but watch nan first fewer episodes and each will beryllium revealed.
“Point being, nan bid is now very overmuch its ain thing: a puzzle-box mystery, an edge-of-your-seat thriller, a can’t-but-mustlook scary story, a family drama, a subject fabrication epic—of nan keyhole variety, of course.
“But arsenic singular, strange, and astonishing arsenic I hope Teacup is, each you request to do is peel distant nan layers, characters, situations, and mythology and look down nan thrills, chills, hairpin turns and make-you gasp reveals.
“Do each that and you’ll see, astatine its heart, Teacup is still very overmuch opinionated connected nan shoulders of Stinger. Just arsenic it should.”
James Wan said successful a statement: “After reference Robert McCammon's book Stinger, nan full squad astatine Atomic Monster felt a spark.
“The communicative had each nan ingredients for a captivating bid and Ian McCulloch had a imagination to bring it to life successful a caller measurement that was some startling and darkly atmospheric, but filled pinch a rich | consciousness of humanity — often lacking successful edgy narratives.
“Add successful our incredibly talented formed led by Yvonne Strahovski, Scott Speedman and Chaske Spencer and fans are successful for a existent edge-of-your-seat experience.
“Teacup defies easy labels. It's a genre-bending blend of horror, mystery, and drama, pinch layers that unfold for illustration a captivating puzzle. It goes beyond chills and thrills and holds up a reflector to humanity, exploring nan acheronian that resides wrong america all. We dream you bask this chaotic thrust arsenic overmuch arsenic we've loved creating it!”
Teacup is group to premiere connected October 10th!