At New York Comic Con today, Prime Video revealed the official trailer for the upcoming sci-fi drama series The Peripheral, which will debut on the streaming service on October 21. You can watch the trailer below.
One new episode will roll out weekly every Friday through December 9, 2022. The series will be available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
The Peripheral stars Chloë Grace Moretz (The Miseducation of Cameron Post), Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Gary Carr (The Deuce), Eli Goree (One Night in Miami…), Louis Herthum (Westworld), JJ Feild (TURN: Washington’s Spies), T’Nia Miller (The Haunting of Bly Manor), and Charlotte Riley (Peaky Blinders).
The cast also includes Alexandra Billings (The Conners), Adelind Horan (The Deuce), Alex Hernandez (UnREAL), Katie Leung (Chimerica), Julian Moore-Cook (Peaky Blinders), Melinda Page Hamilton (Messiah), Chris Coy (The Deuce), and Austin Rising (Alt).
In the series, Flynne Fisher (Chloe Grace Moretz), her Marine veteran brother, Burton (Jack Reynor), and their dying mother live in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2032. As their mother’s health deteriorates and the medical bills add up, Flynne and Burton make extra money playing simulations (“Sims”).
The two siblings share Burton’s avatar, “jockeying” for high-paying customers to beat challenging game levels. When Burton is offered a chance to beta test a new Sim, it’s Flynne who ends up playing, pretending to be her brother.
The Sim takes place in London and tasks Flynne with breaking into a corporation known as the Research Institute to steal a valuable secret. When the assignment goes wrong, Flynne begins to realize the Sim is more real than she could have imagined.
The London she’s exploring exists in the future… the year 2099. And what Flynne has uncovered in the Research Institute has put her and her family in grave peril.
There are people from the future who want to use Flynne for the information she’s stolen… and there are others who want Flynne dead. In Future London, Flynne encounters Wilf (Gary Carr), a man who may be the key to unlocking the mystery at hand.
But first, in her present, Flynne and Burton, along with his former elite military unit, must rally to save themselves from forces intent on killing them – forces sent from the future to reclaim the vital secret Flynne stole.
The Peripheral is produced by Amazon Studios and Warner Bros Television in association with Kilter Films.
Executive producers for The Peripheral are creator and showrunner Scott B. Smith (A Simple Plan), director Vincenzo Natali (In the Tall Grass), Greg Plageman (Person of Interest), Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (Westworld), Athena Wickham (Westworld), and Steven Hoban (In the Tall Grass).
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills to provide the latest news on streaming, movies, and TV shows. He previously created the websites ComingSoon, SuperHeroHype, and ShockTillYouDrop.