Prime Video is headed to the Lone Star State with its latest series pickup.
The Amazon-owned streamer has given a straight-to-series order for Calamities, a Texas-set crime thriller from Hunters creator David Weil. Glen Powell is also among the executive producers (and will have a strictly behind-the-scenes role in the project). Amazon MGM Studios is producing.
Calamities brings Weil back to Prime Video, where in addition to Hunters he has worked on Citadel and the 2021 limited series Solos. Amazon MGM is also producing Tyrant, Weil’s first feature film as writer-director.
The logline for Calamities reads, “After a drug deal explodes into violence, a quiet border town is thrust into a deadly collision course between a small-town sheriff looking for answers from her past, a sociopathic hit woman, an overly eager FBI agent, and a ruthless sect of the cartel.”
Weil is the creator, writer and showrunner of Calamities. He and Natalie Laine Williams are executive producing via their Please Enjoy banner with Powell and Dan Cohen through their Barnstorm company.
“Calamities is the unique, character-rich thriller that doesn’t blink,” said Peter Friedlander, head of global television at Amazon MGM Studios. “David Weil has crafted a story that knocks the wind out of you, and we’re beyond excited to support him, Natalie, Glen, and Dan in bringing it to life on Prime.”
The show is the latest producing credit for Powell, who’s also involved with a Texas Chainsaw Massacre series project at A24. He also exec produced the feature How to Make a Killing and is an EP of his Hulu series Chad Powers. He’s also co-writing a feature comedy called The Comeback King with Judd Apatow, due for release in 2027.
Weil and Please Enjoy are repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen. Powell and Barnstorm are repped by CAA, Johnson Shapiro, and Initiative PR.
