It’s been 14 years sinceTravis Beacham’s scriptA Killing on Carnival Rowscored a spot on the very first installment of the Hollywood Blacklist, but now we’re just weeks away from theCarnival Rowseries debuting on Amazon. It’s a fantasy set in a highly creative and detailed world so this synopsis only scratches the surface of what’s coming our way on August 30th, but here it goes: the show takes place in a Victorian fantasy world where mythological creatures lose their homelands at the hands of invading human armies. In a small corner of this world, we findOrlando Bloom’s Rycroft Philostrate, a human detective who reunites with a former lover, a refugee faerie named Vignette Stonemoss played byCara Delevingne.
Again, that’s really only two descriptors for a show with an extensive ensemble and a significant amount of world-building so it probably won’t come as a surprise when I tell you, I had a lot of questions for the team behind the show when they visited the Collider suite at San Diego Comic-Con 2019. We got to sit down with Beacham, executive producerMarc Guggenheim, Bloom,David Gyasiwho plays a wealthy faun named Agreus, andTamzin Merchantwho plays Imogen Spurnrose, a young human woman with her eye on Agreus. You can catch our full chat in the video at the top of this article and, if you’d like, there’s also a handy interview breakdown below.
Travis Beacham, Marc Guggenheim, Orlando Bloom, David Gyasi & Tamzin Merchant:
Here’s the official synopsis forCarnival Row:
Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Cara Delevingne (Suicide Squad) star in Carnival Row, a series set in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological immigrant creatures whose exotic homelands were invaded by the empires of man. This growing population struggles to coexist with humans — forbidden to live, love, or fly with freedom. But even in darkness, hope lives, as a human detective, Rycroft Philostrate (Bloom), and a refugee faerie named Vignette Stonemoss (Delevingne) rekindle a dangerous affair despite an increasingly intolerant society. Vignette harbors a secret that endangers Philo’s world during his most important case yet: a string of gruesome murders threatening the uneasy peace of the Row.
