Amazon's The Tick series is coming in August!
The Tick pilot arrived last year on Amazon as a long-gestating television reboot of Ben Edlund’s classic indie comic book series, popular 1990’s Fox animated series and gone-too-soon 2001-2002 Fox live-action series. While the casting of English comedian and Guardians of the Galaxy actor Peter Serafinowicz as the mighty blue buffoon was initially met with questions, he embodied the role quite well, yielding fan feedback and numbers successful enough to warrant a subsequent series order.
The Tick will premiere on August 25th.
Here is the official 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 Cast
The Tick stars Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy), Griffin Newman (Vinyl), Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), Valorie Curry (House of Lies) and Brendan Hines (Scorpion) will return for the series.
Yara Martinez, who played the sinister Ms. Lint in the pilot, has been promoted to a regular.
Scott Speiser is the newest addition to The Tick cast. According to Deadline, Speiser has been booked for a regular role on the series, though his character was not confirmed. Speiser has fielded an array of television guest roles across his career, notably with appearances on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., NCIS, Mike & Molly, Intelligence and Criminal Minds. He also recently had a daytime soap run on The Young and the Restless.
Patrick Warburton, who played The Tick in the 2001-2002 Fox series and executive produces the Amazon iteration, will reportedly return to the franchise onscreen for a secret role of some kind.
While storylines for The Tick's full series debut are unknown, here are some details dropped about show in the aftermath of the pilot's premiere.
“This has been a labor of love for Amazon, Sony, and all of us,” said creator and executive producer Ben Edlund, in a statement. “The only way for this to have value was if we found a wholly new expression of The Tick and Arthur's story in live-action, and I think we're on to something.
“Visually and thematically this new Tick lives in the textures and rhetoric of today's superhero saturation tsunami -- and for it to be something you want to watch for hours, it needed to find its way to a story with heart and stakes, as well as absurdism. Is it a radically new hybrid of humor and super heroic action with characters you will care desperately about? YES! Yes it is.”