Last month, Amazon Studios announced that the long-awaited reboot ofThe Tickis part of its new comedy pilot season, while unveiling thefirst photos. The pilot episode will be available for all fans to watch on August 21, but until then, we have a slew of new photos for fans to check out. We also have new details fromBen Edlund, who createdThe Tickseveral decades ago.
The Tickis set in a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an underdog accountant with zero powers comes to realize his city is owned by a global super villain long-thought dead. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero. The Tick starsPeter Serafinowicz(Guardians of the Galaxy) as the title character,Griffin Newman(Vinyl) as Arthur,Jackie Earle Haley(Watchmen) as The Terror,Valorie Curry(House of Lies),Yara Martinez(Jane the Virgin) as Ms. Lint andBrendan Hines(Scorpion) as Superian, who are seen in these images. Here’s whatBen Edlundhad to say about theAmazon Studiosshow in a statement.
“This has been a labor of love for Amazon, Sony, and all of us. The only way for this to have value was if we found a wholly new expression of The Tick and Arthur’s story in live-action, and I think we’re on to something! Visually and thematically this new Tick lives in the textures and rhetoric of today’s superhero saturation tsunami - and for it to be something you want to watch for hours, it needed to find its way to a story with heart and stakes, as well as absurdism. Is it a radically new hybrid of humor and super heroic action with characters you will care desperately about? YES! Yes it is.”
The Tickis executive produced by Ben Edlund (Supernatural), Barry Josephson (Bones) and Barry Sonnenfeld (A Series of Unfortunate Events), directed by Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight), and written by Edlund.Patrick Warburton, who starred as the title character in the original series, will also serve as an executive producer. The Tick is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television.
