Al Pacino to make first TV series in Amazon’s ‘The Hunt’
LEGENDARY film actor Al Pacino is to make his debut as a TV series star in “The Hunt,” in which he plays a Nazi tracker in 1970s New York.
Jordan Peele is serving up “The Hunt” for Amazon Studios with Pacino (pictured right) in the lead role. The series follows a group of Nazi hunters in 1977 New York, determined to stop the formation of a Fourth Reich after discovering not just a handful but hundreds of high-ranking officials living in the city.
Pacino, 78, is to play mentor to a young Nazi hunter, previously cast as Logan Lerman of the “Percy Jackson” franchise,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” and “The Vanishing of Sydney Hall.”
Although it will be his first turn in a long-running TV drama, big screen legend Pacino has appeared in a handful of television movies such as 2018’s ‘Paterno’, which told the story of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and his career and role in the alleged cover-up of sex abuse committed by assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
Peele of layered suburban horror “Get Out” is producing the ten-episode series for Amazon.
The show is inspired by real Nazi hunters active in tracking fugitive officers in the decades following World War II.
“Glee,” “American Horror Story,” and “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon helms the pilot episode. — Relaxnews