Actors Rainn Wilson and Sasha Lane are onboard Amazon Studios' Utopia drama series about people who are being hunted by a secret organisation after they find a comic book that contains clues and information about conspiracy theories that might actually be real.
Amazon's version for Amazon Prime Video is an adaptation of the British series, written by Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn.
The British thriller series that started in 2013 lasted two seasons.
Utopia follows a group of young adults who meet online that are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization after they come into possession of a near-mythical cult underground graphic novel.
Within the comic’s pages, they discover the conspiracy theories that may actually be real and are forced into the dangerous, unique and ironic position of saving the world.
The graphic novel The Utopia Experiments is rumoured to have predicted some disastrous epidemics in the past and there is an unpublished sequel which contains even more information for the survival of humankind.
Rainn Wilson will portray Michael Stearns. Once a promising virologist, Michael is now a forgotten scientist who's lost his edge and who is under-appreciated and underfunded in his laboratory work.
When a nationwide outbreak of a deadly flu arises, Michael offers his expertise, and soon finds himself involved in something much bigger.
Sasha Lane will portray Jessica Hyde.
The Amazon adaptation is a co-production between Endemol Shine North America/Kudos and Amazon Studios.
Executive producing alongside Gillian Flynn are Jessica Rhoades, Kudos' Karen Wilson and Diederick Santer as well as Sharon Hall.
