Production Spotlight | "The Terror: Devil in Silver"
Over the past year, AMC's horror anthology series "The Terror" has discovered a newfound audience on Netflix. The first season premiered in 2018, but it wasn't until Netflix introduced the show to its 280+ million subscribers last summer that "The Terror" really took off. The series quickly found an audience, landing in the top 10 most-watched shows across all streaming platforms for the week of August 22. This newfound popularity came just in time for production of the third season of the series, with filming taking place at Broadway Stages’ facilities on Staten Island.
Viewers who missed the first two seasons don't need to worry about catching up since each season of "The Terror" features a whole new cast and story.
The 10-episode first season, based on Dan Simmons's 2007 novel of the same name, tells a fictionalized account of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to locate the Northwest Passage in the 1840s. Ciarán Hinds ("Belfast") plays Franklin, the British Royal Navy officer and explorer, and Jared Harris ("Mad Men") plays his second-in-command, Captain Francis Crozier.
Franklin led two successful expeditions into the Arctic in the early 19th century. In 1845 he departed for his third expedition as captain of the HMS Erebus. Crozier served as captain of a second ship, the HMS Terror. While attempting to cross the Northwest Passage, both ships got stuck in the ice. The entire crew of 129 men died within a year's time.
Filming of the first season took place in Budapest, Hungary, and the Croatian island Pag.
In 2019, AMC released a second season, jumping ahead nearly 100 years to focus on a haunted Japanese internment camp during World War II. The 10-episode second season called "The Terror: Infamy" begins just before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. The residents of California's Terminal Island are spooked after several of their neighbors die under mysterious circumstances. George Takei ("Star Trek") plays a town elder who believes that a shape-shifting creature of Japanese lore known as a Bakemono is to blame.
The second season was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, specifically the fishing village Steveston and the South Surrey region.
The upcoming third season, titled "The Terror: Devil in Silver," will be based on the 2012 Victor LaValle novel of the same name. Dan Stevens ("Downton Abbey") plays Pepper, a man who finds himself wrongfully committed to a psychiatric hospital where a devilish creature wanders the halls at night. The ensemble cast includes Judith Light, Stephen Root, CCH Pounder, Marin Ireland, Aasif Mandvi, Chinaza Uche, Juani Feliz, Michael Aronov, Philip Ettinger, Hampton Fluker, Hayward Leach, b, and John Benjamin Hickey. The new season is expected to hit AMC and AMC+ later this year.
We are thrilled that "The Terror: Devil in Silver" is filming in the New York City region. On top of shooting at our facilities (including our campus located at the former Arthur Kill Correctional Facility as a stand-in for the psychiatric hospital), the show will also include scenes shot at Lee's Tavern, a Staten Island pizzeria and bar that also appeared in an episode of "Blue Bloods."
The new season will include an executive producing team of Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Guymon Casady, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan, Dan Stevens, and Brooke Kennedy. Kennedy was also a producer and frequent director on "The Good Wife" and "The Good Fight," both filmed at our facilities. Karyn Kusama ("Yellowjackets") is also an executive producer and will direct the first two episodes of the season
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