Jordan Peele has largely cast off his comic persona in becoming the leader of a new school of horror, and his latest project shows no sign he intends to lighten back up. The Us and Get Out director has produced a new series for Amazon Prime Video, Hunters, which stars Al Pacino as a grizzled Nazi-hunter who tracks down fugitive party members in Seventies New York, where they're trying to launch a Fourth Reich.
The first trailer for Hunters just landed, and it sees Pacino speechifying about the battle between good and evil to his rag-tag team of Nazi-hunters, part of a cast that includes Logan Lerman, Jerrika Hinton, Josh Radnor, Kate Mulvany, Tiffany Boone, Greg Austin, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Carol Kane, Saul Rubinek, Dylan Baker and Lena Olin.
Although he's still sprightly for a 79-year-old, it seems that Pacino's more of a Nick Fury-type figure, sending his troops out on anti-Nazi adventures rather than assassinating them himself. Which, frankly, plays to his strengths – no one does portentous speech-making quite like Pacino.
Hunters, which was created and co-produced by David Weil, who wrote upcoming sci-fi thriller Moonfall, will arrive on Amazon Prime Video next year, although it doesn't yet have a specific air date. Amazon will be hoping it can fill the spaces left by its most recent critical darlings, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and Fleabag, which have left gaping holes in a line-up that's always looked light compared to Netflix. With Apple+ and Disney+ now competing for customers' subscription budgets, Jeff Bezos's execs will be hoping Pacino and Peele's star power can give them their next hit.
Watch the trailer below and see if you think they've found it.
