‘Carnival Row’ Trailer: Orlando Bloom And Cara Delevingne Investigate A Fantastical Murder Mystery

You couldn’t go two feet at Comic-Con without seeing SOMETHING for Amazon’s Victorian-era fantasy series, Carnival Row.  It was everywhere, with stars Cara Delevingne and Orlando Bloom on hand as part of a show panel that, at least from what I hear, went over very well with the crowd. Once a project cooked up by Guillermo Del Toro in 2015, he dropped out and his co-creators soldiered on with a trailer heralding its arrival in a few weeks.

Delevingne and Bloom star in the series set in a Victorian-era England full of mythological creatures that exist alongside humans. When a string of murders hits the community, the crimes must be solved to set things right and set the immigrant creatures free from oppression.

The 9-episode series was created by  René Echevarria and Travis Beacham, with  Jon Amiel, Anna Foerster, Andy Goddard, and Paul McGuigan directing. Jared Harris, David Gyasi, Karla Crome, Indira Varma, Tamzin Merchant, Simon McBurney, and Alice Krige co-star. Amazon’s putting a lot behind this one, so much that they’ve already renewed it for season 2.

Carnival Row hits Amazon on August 30th. Check out the trailer and a couple of prologues below.

Travis Hopson
Travis Hopson has been reviewing movies before he even knew there was such a thing. Having grown up on a combination of bad '80s movies, pro wrestling, comic books, and hip-hop, Travis is uniquely positioned to geek out on just about everything under the sun. A vampire who walks during the day and refuses to sleep, Travis is the co-creator and lead writer for Punch Drunk Critics. He is also a contributor to Good Morning Washington, WBAL Morning News, and WETA Around Town. In the five minutes a day he's not working, Travis is also a voice actor, podcaster, and Twitch gamer. Travis is a voting member of the Critics Choice Association (CCA), Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA), and Late Night programmer for the Lakefront Film Festival.