Cara Delevigne And Orlando Bloom Are Crime Fighting Elves In The Trailer For ‘Carnival Row’
This looks wild.
Listen, after Netflix’s Bright, it’s reasonable to be suspicious of a streaming service making content about gritty fairies. But trust me: Carnival Row is something else entirely.
For a start, the Amazon original series stars Cara Delevigne and Orlando Bloom, both of whom are, despite being stars, relatively fresh faces when it comes to TV. They play a pair of “mythical creatures” who have been forced to leave their home countries, and to settle in a city rocked by a series of murders.
Think Alan Moore’s From Hell combined with Guillermo Del Toro’s steampunk-inflected, Lovecraftian Hellboy movies and you’ll be bang on target.
That’s no coincedence either: Del Toro was actually attached to executive produce the project at one point, before his film commitments meant he had to drop out and Jon Amiel, the man behind the widely acclaimed Singing Detective series, had to step in.
Watch the teaser below. It doesn’t really give anything away but the vague sense of the tone, so those who want to avoid spoilers can watch without need to worry:
The first season of Carnival Row drops in full on August 30th on Amazon Prime Video.