Amazon Prime Video's- 'Tales From The Loop'
Amazon has a fair number of shows available through their Amazon Prime Video service. Among those shows are original series that sometimes push the bounds on what we would normally expect in a show. They often times have shows that are also based off works done by others. So what happens when you combine the concept of something entirely outside the realm of what you normally think possible and an established work of art? You end up with a piece of fiction that you may have always wanted to witness, but couldn’t until now.
‘Tales from the Loop’ is an upcoming drama series set to premiere through Amazon Prime Video. The series is based on the narrative art book with the same title by Simon Stålenhag. The art book isn’t the only thing that the series is based off, as he also made a role-playing tabletop game of the same name that serves as an influence. To create such a world, he took influences from local Swedish landscapes, his childhood, and themes from science fiction films. His works have since become the basis for the television series, and a movie that is set to be directed and produced by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, respectively.
The premise of ‘Tales from the Loop’ is that a town of people live above a device known as “The Loop.” This device is, in actuality, a supercollider which was built to discover the secrets of the universe. What results from this are a series of stories that poke into the realm of science fiction. This fantastical mysterious town tells poignant human tales that bare universal emotional experiences that everyone can experience equally.
The series stars Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Town), Paul Schneider (Parks and Recreation), Daniel Zolghardi (Eighth Grade), Duncan Joiner (Waco) and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, Game of Thrones). ‘Tales from the Loop’ is coming from Fox21 Television Studios and Amazon Studios to be released through Amazon Prime Video in an eight episode series. It was created by Nathaniel Halpern, who wrote all eight episodes of the series. Halpern also serves as executive producer alongside Mark Romanek, Matt Reeves, Adam Kassan, Rafi Crohn, Mattias Montero, Samantha Taylor Pickett, Adam Berg, and Simon Stålenhag. ‘Tales from the Loop’ will premiere on April 3, 2020 on Prime Video only.