AMC+ has just released their first-look images from the highly anticipated, and frankly, highly original vampire fantasy seriesFirebite. The eight-episode series, which will release episodes every Thursday, starsYael Stone(Orange is the New Black),Rob Collins(Cleverman, Extraction),Callan Mulvey(Avengers: End Game),and Indigenous Australian starShantae Barnes-Cowan.
The series takes the vampire genre into new uncharted territory as it follows two Indigenous Australian hunters on their quest to battle the last colony of the vampires in the middle of the South Australian desert. When looking at these images, it appears that the show will deliver visually stunning locations, creepy caverns, and a bloody (pun intended) good time.
The series is created, directed, and written by Australia’s most celebrated Indigenous voice,Warwick Thronton. Thronton is best known for his first feature filmSampson and Delilahwhich won the “Gold Camera Award” for ‘Best First Feature Film’.Sampson and Delilahtells a survival love story of two Indigenous Australian teens who live in a remote Aboriginal community and steal a car to escape their difficult and troubled lives.
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Thornton will work alongsideBrendan Fletcher(Mad Bastards), withTony Krawitz(The Tall Man, Dead Europe)joining as director.
Firebitewill be overseen byKristin Jonesfor AMC Networks and executive produced byEmile ShermanandIain Canningof See-Saw Films. See-Saw Films is the British-Australian production company that is behind Best Picture WinnerThe Kings Speech, and the Oscar-nominated filmLion.
Firebitewill premier on the AMC+ streaming service on December 16th.
Take a look at the first images below, then read the official synopsis of the series.
Firebiteis set in a remote desert mining town, a hive for the last vampire stronghold shipped from Britain to Australia in 1788 by the colonial superpower to eradicate the Indigenous populations. Sheltering from the sun in the underground mines and tunnels that surround the town until the present day, the colony’s numbers and hunger is growing. War is coming. Tyson and Shanika stand vanguard to the war. But what hope does an expertly reckless man full of bravado and a 17-year-old orphan possibly have to defeat these vicious blood-thirsty parasites, when legions of warriors before them have failed?
