It has only been two weeks since we shared the first trailer for the upcoming second season of the AMC anthology series The Terror, but there's already another trailer for the show. This one has almost all the same dialogue as its predecessor, but mixes it with some new imagery.
Based on a novel by Dan Simmons, the first season of The Terror was about a doomed journey to the Arctic in the 1840s. For the new season, which is called The Terror: Infamy, Max Borenstein and Alexander Woo have crafted a story that is set one hundred years later, at the time of World War II, and is about
an uncanny specter that menaces a Japanese-American community from its home in Southern California to the internment camps to the war in the Pacific.
Cast members include C. Thomas Howell as Retired Major Hallowell Bowen, "an official with the War Relocation Authority whose presence looms over the Japanese-American characters in the story"; Cristina Rodlo as Luz, "a nursing student who must make some tough decisions between her personal and professional life"; Derek Mio as Chester Nakayama, "a young man trying to understand and fight the malevolent entity responsible for a series of bizarre deaths in his community"; Kiki Sukezane as Yuko, a mysterious woman from Chester's past; Miki Ishikawa as Nakayama family friend Amy; Shingo Usami as Chester's father Henry; Naoko Mori as Chester's mother Asako; and George Takei as Yamato-san, a former fishing captain and community elder.
I've been meaning to get around to watching the first season of The Terror. Even though they tell different stories, The Terror: Infamy looks so interesting to me that it's pushing me toward finally catching up on this show.
The Terror: Infamy will begin airing on AMC on August 12th. Like the first season, this one will consist of ten episodes.
The Terror is produced by Scott Free, Emjag Productions and Entertainment 360, with Woo, Borenstein, and Simmons executive producing alongside Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert, and Guymon Casady. The first two episodes of The Terror: Infamy were directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka.