Amazon has announced that it is working on a new series adapted from Nick Cutter’s (Little Heaven, The Troop) The Deep. According to Deadline, the show is written by C. Henry Chaisson, who also worked on the film Antlers and the Apple series Servant.
The show is being developed by executive producer Carlton Cuse (Locke & Key, Colony), who also executive produced Lost and Five Days at Memorial. Other executive producers attached to the project include Henrik Bastin (Interrogation, The Comedians) and Melissa Aouate (Interrogation, Hit the Road).
The book from Cutter that the series is being adapted from takes place in the near future. It focuses on a research station at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean when the scientists working there discover what seems to be a new hope for humanity. Still, the secrets unearthed on the ocean floor might bring devastating consequences for the world above ground.
The Deep was first published in 2015 by Simon & Schuster and bears no relation to the 1976 novel by Peter Benchley (Jaws, the Island) or the 1977 movie by the same name.
According to Deadline, this isn’t Chaisson’s first book-to-series adaptation. He previously worked on developing the adaptation of Ronald Malfi’s (Come With Me, Black Mouth) Bone White with Amazon and Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid’s Tale, Fargo). At the moment he is also working on writing the English-language feature adaptation of Young-ha Kim’s (Why Arang, Black Flower) novella Diary of a Murderer for Mammoth Pictures and director Kourosh Ahari (The Night, The Yellow Wallpaper).
Cuse will be executive producing through his Genre Arts production company. It was revealed earlier this year, via Deadline, that Cuse signed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios after he helped with the co-creation of the popular series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. He also served as a showrunner in the first and second seasons of the series. His new series Five Days at Memorial, which centers around a hospital during Hurricane Katrina, premiered as a miniseries on Apple TV. The miniseries was written alongside John Ridley (Needle in a Timestack, American Crime) and was first available in August.
Bastin and Aouate will executive produce for Fabel Entertainment. The pair have also worked as executive producers for the long-running Amazon series Bosch and its spinoff Bosch: Legacy available on Freevee.
The Deep is still in pre-production and no actors have been attached to this project at the moment.