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Carnival Row He has a long history languishing in the development of purgatory before finding his place in a series of eight episodes of fantasy-black presented for the first time on Amazon Prime Video next month.

"I wrote this scenario at the film school 17 years ago", show creator and executive producer Travis Beacham explained to San Diego Comic-Con's Carnival Row panel Friday. "I did it like a feature film and I did it without the thought of selling it; it was just a sandbox where I could play. Ironically, this is the scenario that was sold for the first time, and that's the scenario that started my career … as darling as it was, it dragged on for a long time until there were about four or five, when Legendary picked it up and suggested it as a TV show. . The prospect of this was extremely exciting – in writing the world, I had imagined so much backstory, and so many things at the corners and in the streets. If I had written it for the first time now, I would have never even written it in film form. "

Read on for everything we learned at the Carnival Row Comic-Con Panel.

Beacham's comments on the immense complexity of the series and the intertwined characters were echoed by others on stage, including another executive producer. Marc Guggenheim and actors Orlando Bloom (Rycroft Philostrate), Cara Delevingne (Stonemoss vignette), Tamzin Merchant (Imogen Spurnrose), and David Gyasi (Agreus Astrayon). Based on the group's comments and the clips shown to the SDCC audience (including the official release of its first trailer), the show is definitely vast, addressing the complexities of a whole world while also leaving time for moments. of smaller and detailed life on the row.

Shared clips reveal Small and big conflicts

The public had a glimpse of these different litters through four clips broadcast during the panel. The first two sequences gave a glimpse of the larger conflict in this mythical world and were told from the point of view of the main characters: the human detective Rycroft Philostrate (Bloom) and the fairy Vignette Stonemoss (Delevingne). We discover that both are cursed lovers, reunited and torn apart by a war between humans and fae. The two of them ended up in Carnival Row, a street in a Victorian city in London, where the fae are refugees and often treated with animal cruelty. The clips also point out that there is a serial killer on the run: a creature, neither human nor fae, who is roaming the Row uprooting people.

The third and fourth clips were turned to the upscale part of the city and were dedicated to the human aristocrat Imogene Spurnrose (Merchant) and his new neighbor, the puck Agreus Astrayon (Gyasi). Here too, the tone is different. Rather than being plunged into the rough and miserable life of those of Carinval Row, we find ourselves faced with the enigma (from Imogene's point of view) of bringing in an unwanted fae neighbor. While the first clip shows Imogene and his brother wavering when they realize that their new rich neighbor is fae, the second clip has Agreus at his door, offering him a good deal to help him in his financial problems if she offers him a gateway to high society.

Carnival Row is a fantastic world, but also speaks of our world

"You may be wondering how this dramatic show story will work with war-torn countries, and everything works because everything is one big world," said Guggenheim after the fourth clip. "Part of this world is a discussion of racism and feminism, clbadism and spiritualism, and we cover it all; We look at all the ways to differentiate people and creatures in a society. And that gives a very stratified and complex show.

"That's his reach," said Beacham. "It's about the whole of society and how all these wheels intersect, interpenetrating each other, and how one wheel moves the other and all the rest has an impact. It's about finding the most complex answer and looking for the most interesting route instead of the simplest or easiest to understand. "

Carnival Row, Amazon Original, in eight episodes, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on August 30, 2019.

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