A confidence man wins your confidence and gives your money to Bryan Cranston in Sneaky Pete trailer.
“If you think you know who I really am, you’ve been conned,” says Giovanni Ribisi in the trailer for the upcoming Amazon Prime series Sneaky Peak. The entire season of the new series will be available for streaming starting, Friday January 13th.
"We're excited that 2017 will be starting with Sneaky Pete, an inside look at the world of con artists," Joe Lewis, head of comedy and drama for Amazon Studios, said in a statement. "The remarkable cast, led by Giovanni Ribisi, and innovative producers Bryan Cranston and Graham Yost have made a fantastic series that we're excited to bring to customers."
The new original dramatic series Sneaky Pete tells the story of a con man named Marius, played by Ribisi, who gets out of jail but can’t go home without the money he robbed from a gangster who is getting ready to start chopping off the fingers of the con man’s brother. The gangster is played by Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, who is also executive producing the series along with Graham Yost, Michael Dinner, Fred Golan, James Degus and Seth Gordon.
“The lengths that Marius goes to in order to keep everything going, it speaks to his character, where you kind of wonder, is it for survival, or is it for the game?” Ribisi said in a statement. “Or is it just straight up this addiction that he has to creating that illusion? Then what’s also great is that you see that in so many other characters, where things aren’t all copacetic within the family. They have their own demons and skeletons in the closet. That’s one of the themes and the premises of show, is that there’s a lot more complexity within human nature, within that farmhouse, with Vince. Where you see Vince having, later on, glimpses of humanity. He has his own moral code, his own sense of ethics that he abides by.”
According to the official synopsis:
From the creator of Justified and Executive Producer Bryan Cranston comes an exciting new series about a con-man, Marius (Giovanni Ribisi), on the run from a vicious gangster. Marius hides by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, and takes cover with Pete's estranged family – a colorful group (headed by Margo Martindale) with well-guarded and dangerous secrets of their own.
The series also stars Marin Ireland, Margo Martindale, Peter Gerety, Libe Barer and Shane McRae.
Sneaky Pete premieres on January 13 on Amazon Prime.