The Tick is getting revived at Amazon with Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Peter Serafinowicz set to play the big blue bug.
Check out a batch of images below from the series.
The Tick debuts August 19th and is executive produced by Patrick Warburton, who headlined the previous live-action version, and also sees the return of executive producers Ben Edlund, Barry Josephson and Barry Sonnenfeld. Tick creator Ben Edlund is also writing the new series.
The pilot episode of The Tick is being helmed by Transcendence’s Wally Pfister.
Synopsis:
In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an underdog accountant with zero powers comes to realize his city is owned by a global super villain long-thought dead. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero. The Tick stars Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy), Griffin Newman (Vinyl), Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), Valorie Curry (House of Lies), Yara Martinez (Jane the Virgin) and Brendan Hines (Scorpion). The Tick is executive produced by Ben Edlund (Supernatural), Barry Josephson (Bones) and Barry Sonnenfeld (A Series of Unfortunate Events), directed by Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight), and written by Edlund. The Tick is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television.
