Writer Brian K Vaughan and artist Cliff Chiang’s popular graphic novels spring to life in Paper Girls, a new series premiering on Prime Video on Friday, July 29, 2022. The time-traveling series just dropped an official trailer introducing the key players, including the group of teens who accidentally wind up in 1999 when they should be living their best lives in 1988.
All eight season one episodes will be available on July 29th for binge-watching.
The cast includes Camryn Jones (“Tiffany Quilkin”), Riley Lai Nelet (“Erin Tieng”), Sofia Rosinsky (“Mac Coyle”), and Fina Strazza (“KJ Brandman”). Ali Wong plays the grown-up version of “Erin.” Nate Corddry stars as “Larry” and Adina Porter plays “Prioress.”
Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang are involved as executive producers along with Christopher C. Rogers, Stephany Folsom, Christopher Cantwell, Steven Prinz, and Plan B. Stephany Folsom created the series for television and Mairzee Almas, Georgi Banks-Davies, Destiny Ekaragha, and Karen Gaviola direct.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Vaughan recalled there was a period of time when the paper boys in his neighborhood were replaced by paper girls. “I just thought it was so badass that these 12-year-old children were going out at 4 a.m. to deliver bad news to adults. It was just so interesting and captivating that they were newspaper delivery kids, sort of a dying breed, and yet they were the first of their kind,” explained Vaughan. “I thought, ‘this is such an interesting group of young women. They would make a great heart of a story.’ So it started with that inspiration and expanded from there.”
The sci-fi action thriller is an Amazon Studios and Legendary Television, in association with Plan B, production.
Prime Video’s official synopsis:
“In the early morning hours after Halloween 1988, four paper girls – Erin, Mac, Tiffany, and KJ – are out on their delivery route when they become caught in the crossfire between warring time-travelers, changing the course of their lives forever. Transported into the future, these girls must figure out a way to get back home to the past, a journey that will bring them face-to-face with the grown-up versions of themselves.
While reconciling that their futures are far different than their 12-year-old selves imagined, they are being hunted by a militant faction of time-travelers known as the Old Watch, who have outlawed time travel so that they can stay in power. In order to survive, the girls will need to overcome their differences and learn to trust each other, and themselves.”
