AMC+ released a trailer for their new seriesAnnawhich asks the question “What would the world be like if kids ran it all?” The answer seems to be total chaos as the trailer shows a world in which rules and laws as we know them today no longer apply and where roaming gangs of kids resort to any means necessary to survive. This dystopian drama from Italian filmmaker and authorNiccolò Ammanitiwill make its way to AMC+ on November 18.
The trailer briefly introduces us to Anna, played byGiulia Dragottoin her debut television role, as she looks through the book her mother left behind for her to help her survive. The world is now devoid of adults thanks to a deadly virus that only spares children and Anna is left alone to care for her younger brother Astor, portrayed byAlessandro Pecorellain his debut performance as well. That is until a feared gang of savage children called The Blue Kids kidnaps the young boy while Anna is away searching for provisions, leading her on a journey to rescue him. In this post-apocalyptic land, children fight for resources and it seems some of the older kids take up cult-like leadership roles, making the world all the more terrifying for a lone child like Anna.
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Annais based on Ammaniti’s best-selling 2015 young adult book of the same name. Set in Italy, it follows a teen girl and her brother in the aftermath of the adult-killing virus, forced to set out into the ruined world that nature has started to reclaim in order to keep both of them alive. The series premiered in Italy back in April and received overall solid praise with GQ saying “Anna is the best series of 2021 and confirms Ammaniti one of the best TV authors.”
Ammaniti, a Premio Strega winner in 2007, directed the six-part series for which he crafted the screenplay alongsideFrancesca Manieri(Fast as the Wind,The First King).Mario GiananiandLorenzo Mieliproduced alongsideLorenzo Gangarossafor Wildside in co-production with ARTE France, Fremantle, The New Life Company, and Kwaï. The show is produced with the support of Creative Europe – Media Programme of the European Union. Check out the trailer below for a look at a world where kids rule.
Here’s the official synopsis for the series from AMC+:
Anna is a dystopian story of a ravaged world destroyed by a virus which kills adults but spares children. Set amongst parched fields and mysterious forests, the crumbling hulks of shopping malls and abandoned cities pierce deserted wide-open spaces on an island reclaimed by nature and run by savage communities of survivors, most of whom are children. Anna only has one guide: a book left by her mother with instructions on how to survive. But, with each passing day she discovers that the old rules no longer apply, and instead must make up new ones as she goes along.
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