The teaser trailer for The Consultant features a dead body, masked thieves, and two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds) as the boss from hell. The first teaser was accompanied by the announcement that The Consultant will launch all eight episodes on February 24, 2023 on Prime Video.
The Consultant was created by showrunner and executive producer Tony Basgallop (Servant, Inside Men, Hotel Babylon) and is based on the 2015 novel by Bentley Little. Waltz stars as Regus Patoff, Brittany O’Grady is Elaine, Aimee Carrero is Patti, and Nat Wolff plays Craig.
Matt Shakman directed the pilot and serves as an executive producer along with Christoph Waltz, Steve Stark, and Andrew Mittman. The series is an MGM Television and Amazon Studios production.
“The Consultant is a biting workplace satire that is as suspenseful as it is darkly funny,” stated Michael Wright, president of scripted TV at MGM. “Tony has created something truly unexpected with this series, and we are thrilled to partner with Amazon and this brilliant creative team to bring the story to life for audiences around the world.”
“It’s a huge honor to be working with the talents of Matt Shakman and Christoph Waltz on this project that I developed with the team at 1.21 and Toluca Pictures,” said showrunner Basgallop. “And with MGM and Amazon Studios we’ve found partners who are not afraid to be bold and explosive.”
Prime Video offers this description of the twisted, comedic thriller: “When a new consultant, Regus Patoff (Waltz), is hired to improve the business at the App-based gaming company CompWare, employees experience new demands and challenges that put everything into question … including their lives.”
