Judith Light, CCH Pounder Join AMC’s ‘The Terror’
The third season of AMC’s anthology The Terror has filled out is principal cast with some big names.
Season three, subtitled Devil in Silver, will star Dan Stevens as a man who’s wrongly committed to a psychiatric hospital and finds himself fighting a supernatural force. The series has added a dozen actors to its cast, filling out the regular cast as production gets underway.
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The new additions are Emmy winner Judith Light, CCH Pounder (Rustin, The Shield), Chinaza Uche (Dickinson), Hampton Fluker (Shades of Blue), b (You), Aasif Mandvi (Evil), John Benjamin Hickey (The Big C), Stephen Root (Barry), Hayward Leach (Tom Swift), Michael Aronov (The Americans), Marin Ireland (Justified: City Primeval) and Phillip Ettinger (First Reformed). Details on their roles are being kept quiet for now.
The Terror premiered in 2018; a second season aired in 2019, but the anthology lay dormant until AMC picked up a third season in February. The six-episode Devil in Silver is based on a novel of the same name by Victor LaValle.
Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and LaValle are writing and executive producing The Terror: Devil in Silver, which comes from AMC Studios. Karyn Kusama will direct the first two episodes and is an exec producer along with Stevens. Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker of Scott Free Productions, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert of Emjag Productions, Guymon Casady of Entertainment 360 and Brooke Kennedy. The six-episode season is slated for a 2025 premiere on AMC and AMC+.
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