New project! Joel is set to lead the crime drama series, Bishop, for Prime Video.
Prime Video has given an official series green light to Bishop, an original thriller drama starring Joel Kinnaman. It comes from co-creators/executive producers Little Marvin (Them) and Tony Salzman (Dexter: Resurrection), Vertigo and Amazon MGM Studios.
In Bishop, homicide detective Bishop Graves (Kinnaman) – brilliant, battle-scarred – will put all of his skills to the test in the hunt for an elusive killer targeting San Francisco’s moneyed class. As this increasingly audacious killer develops a devoted following among the city’s powerless, Bishop becomes convinced these murders connect back to SF’s most powerful man, his own father, Lincoln Graves.
The project got on the runway for a series order in late spring with Kinnaman as the choice for the title character. Over the summer, there were on and off conversations with an A-list actor for the Lincoln role, which ultimately fell through.
Little Marvin serves as showrunner of Bishop, which he and Saltzman executive produce alongside Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon.
“Little Marvin and Tony Saltzman have created a truly electric crime drama,” Nick Pepper, Head of US SVOD TV & Development Series, Amazon MGM Studios, said. “We are thrilled to see Joel Kinnaman bring the titular Detective Bishop Graves to life. Paired with our outstanding collaborators Roy Lee and Miri Yoon from Vertigo, Bishop is poised to captivate and surprise our global Prime Video customers.”
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