Critics Choice Awards winner Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns, A Quiet Place) and Chaske Spencer (Banshee) lead the cast of Prime Video’s The English, a new Western series that just launched its first teaser trailer. The six-episode limited series, set in the late 19th century, will debut on November 11, 2022 (Nov. 10th in the UK) with the release of the full season.
Hugo Blick (The Honourable Woman) created the series and serves as writer, director, and executive producer. In addition to Blunt and Spencer, The English stars Stephen Rea (The Shadow Line), Valerie Pachner (A Hidden Life), Rafe Spall (The Salisbury Poisonings), Tom Hughes (A Discovery of Witches), Toby Jones (Marvellous), and Ciarán Hinds (The Terror).
The series is a co-production of Amazon Studios and BBC, with Drama Republic Ltd and Eight Rooks Ltd. producing. Series star Emily Blunt executive produces along with Drama Republics’ Greg Brenman.
“The chance to make a Western with Emily Blunt and the cast is so delicious I’m still wondering if it’s one of those weird dreams we were all having during lockdown. If not, a thrilling, romantic, epic horse-opera is heading to your screen sometime next year, and I couldn’t be more excited,” said Hugo Blick.
Brad Beale, Vice President, Worldwide Licensing for Prime Video stated, “We can’t wait to break new ground and bring The English to Prime Video. We know Hugo Blick’s incredible tale of love, loss, and revenge – brought to life on screen by the talented Emily Blunt, Chaske Spencer, and the entire cast of The English – will captivate Prime members across the globe.”
BFI London Film Festival will host the world premiere of the series on October 15, 2022.
Prime Video released the following synopsis of the limited series:
The series takes the core themes of identity and revenge to tell a uniquely compelling parable on race, power, and love. An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke (Blunt), and a Pawnee ex-cavalry scout, Eli Whipp (Spencer), come together in 1890 middle America to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood. Both of them have a clear sense of their destiny, but neither is aware that it is rooted in a shared past.
They must face increasingly terrifying obstacles that will test them to their limits, physically and psychologically. But as each obstacle is overcome, it draws them closer to their ultimate destination – the new town of Hoxem, Wyoming. It is here, after an investigation by the local sheriff Robert Marshall (Rea) and young widow Martha Myers (Pachner) into a series of bizarre and macabre unsolved murders, that the full extent of their intertwined history will be truly understood, and they will come face-to-face with the future they must live.
