Due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, production on the second season of the science fiction series “The Peripheral” on Amazon Prime Video has been postponed. The London and New York production was supposed to start in September 2023, but that may not happen until the strikes are over. The main character of “The Peripheral,” Flynne Fisher, struggles to put her fractured family back together in a remote area of a future America. Flynne is intelligent, driven, and doomed. She is doomed. till the future starts to beckon her. According to the official logline, “The Peripheral is master storyteller William Gibson’s brilliant, hallucinogenic insight into the fate of mankind – and what lies beyond.
The show, which is based on William Gibson’s self-titled novel, was renewed for a second season in February 2023. However, a production delay was caused by the WGA strike in May and the SAG-AFTRA strike in July. The first season of the show also featured a sizable amount of London-based filming. Some recently released productions shot in the city include “Barbie,” “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” “The Flash,” “Secret Invasion,” “Silo,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” etc. On the other hand, New York has served as the filming location for a number of well-known shows, including “Only Murders in the Building,” “Suits,” “Heartstopper,” “Succession,” “Billions,” “The Blacklist,” etc.
Chloe Grace Moretz (Shadow in the Cloud, The Miseducation of Cameron Post), Gary Carr (Death in Paradise, The Deuce), Jack Reynor (What Richard Did, Transformers: Age of Extinction), Lev Zubov, and Cherise Nuland are the main characters in “The Peripheral.” T’Nia Miller (The Haunting of Bly Manor, Years and Years), who also appears, plays Burton Fisher.
Louis Herthum plays Corbell Pickett, Katie Leung plays Ash, Melinda Page Hamilton plays Ella Fisher, Chris Coy plays Jasper Baker, Alex Hernandez plays Tommy Constantine, Julian Moore-Cook plays Ossian, Adelind Horan plays Billy Ann Baker, Austin Rising plays Leon, Eli Goree plays Conner Penske, Charlotte Riley plays Aelita West, and Alexandra Billings plays Inspector Ainsley Lowbeer.
The series was created by Scott Smith, who is most known for his work on the films “A Simple Plan” and “The Burnt Orange Heresy.” Along with Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Vincenzo Natali, Athena Wickham, and Steven Hoban, he also acts as the show’s executive producer. The show is made by Kilter Films in association with Warner Bros. Television and Amazon Studios.
The first season’s eight episodes had their premiere on October 21, 2022, and they were finished on December 2, 2022. Amazon opted to continue the series for season 2 after the first episode garnered an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response. “We can’t wait to carry on the adventure into Season Two and explore even further into the amazing universe that Gibson created. In announcing the renewal, executive producers Joy and Nolan said, “On behalf of Scott Smith, Vincenzo Natali, and the entire team, we’re grateful to our partners at Amazon and, most of all, to the fans.
“William’s mind-bending story, in collaboration with the creative geniuses of Scott, Jonathan, and Lisa, produced an unforgettable journey for our global audience, and we are thrilled with how they embraced the series,” said Scott, Jonathan, and Lisa. As this incredibly ambitious series develops, we look forward to expanding our collaboration with Warner Bros. and Kilter Films, said Vernon Sanders, head of worldwide television at Amazon Studios.
