Interval drama Downton Abbey might have made Dan Stevens a family identify again within the 2010s, however his profession since enjoying Matthew Crawley has been a pleasant mixture of weirdo character items and entertaining Hollywood blockbuster roles, with some occasional offbeat voicework thrown on high. (He’s the very best a part of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and we won’t be taking questions presently.) Stevens has a half-dozen tasks at present within the works, starting from one other Godzilla film to enjoying a serial killer on the latest Dexter revival. Nevertheless it’s his subsequent position that feels surprisingly acquainted — if solely due to the disturbing nature of its setting.
Stevens will lead the brand new installment of AMC’s critically acclaimed horror franchise, The Terror. Subtitled Satan in Silver, the sequence will adapt Victor LaValle’s e-book of the identical identify and is one thing of a swerve from its predecessors in that it’s a recent story versus a interval piece. (Season 1 adopted a doomed Nineteenth-century Arctic expedition, whereas season 2 was set in a Japanese internment camp in California throughout World Warfare II.)
Stevens performs Pepper, a working-class man who’s unjustly dedicated to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, an establishment crammed with the varieties of individuals society vastly prefers to neglect. However one thing darker is hidden in one of many establishment’s locked wards, and with a view to escape, Pepper should confront each the monstrous entity that appears to feed on the struggling of others — and the demons inside himself.
One half horror thriller and one half livid takedown of the inequities inherent in America’s psychological well being system, LaValle’s novel wrestles with questions of religion, race, and sophistication by way of acquainted style tropes. It’s additionally a reasonably acquainted place for Stevens to be in as an actor, who has discovered himself unwillingly snared in a psychological establishment as soon as earlier than.
