Utopia (upcoming TV series)


Utopia is an upcoming American drama web television series adapted by Gillian Flynn from the British original. It is scheduled to premiere in Fall 2020 on Prime Video.

Cast and characters

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Development

Utopia was ordered direct-to-series on April 19, 2018 with an order of nine episodes, after being originally set up at HBO with David Fincher to direct, but never produced after a financial dispute. On April 19, 2018, Utopia remake ordered to series by Amazon. On July 23, 2020, during the San Diego Comic-Con@Home, the first teaser for the series was released and is set to be released this fall.

Filming

In June 2018, it was announced the series will start filming by fall 2018. On August 8, 2018, it was announced the series would consist of nine episodes, and probably have three different directors at work, one every three episodes.
On October 17, 2019, the creator of the show, Gillian Flynn, announced that the series' filming was completed.

Casting

During its initial development in 2015, the cast included Rooney Mara, Colm Feore, Eric McCormack, Dallas Roberts, Jason Ritter, Brandon Scott and Agyness Deyn.
In January 2019, Sasha Lane joined the cast of the series. In February 2019, Rainn Wilson, Dan Byrd, Cory Michael Smith, Ashleigh LaThrop, Desmin Borges, Farrah Mackenzie, and Christopher Denham joined the cast of the series. In April 2019, John Cusack and Jeanine Serralles joined the cast of the series. In May 2019, Jessica Rothe, Felisha Terrell and Dustin Ingram joined the cast in recurring roles.