The Turner Upfront presentation for 2016-17 held in Madison Square Garden earlier this week included a teaser for TNT’s upcoming adaptation of The Alienist. According to Deadline, the President of TBS and TNT and Chief Content Officer for Turner Entertainment, Kevin Reilly, who is apparently “a huge fan of the book,” has promised that the TV series “will be marquee programming.”
Although several other trailers have since appeared on TNT’s YouTube channel, the teaser for The Alienist does not appear to have been released online yet. However, the few comments I was able to locate on Twitter from various members of the entertainment press in response to the teaser for The Alienist were positive. Diane Gordon, freelance event reporter for Variety and New York Magazine, described the teaser for the series as having “great production value,” while Michael Schneider, executive editor for Indiewire, revealed that ten scripts for The Alienist have now been finished, and casting is underway.
Turner shows teaser for Cary Joji Fukunaga's #TheAlienist. 10 scripts are finished, casting is underway. Also teaser for #TalesFromTheCrypt.
— Michael Schneider (@franklinavenue) May 18, 2016
Hi,
The teaser isn’t up on YouTube but is up over at VK.com if you’re interested in checking it out. I’d post the link but I don’t know what your rules for posting links are and don’t want to accidentally violate them.
Cheers!
Hi Matthew, thanks for letting me know! I don’t have an account with VK.com, so you’re more than welcome to post a link to the teaser here.
It is very frustrating to wait months for a tiny scrap of information. I understand that a production of something as complex as “The Alienist” would not happen quickly like most TV productions. It would be great if a general estimate as to when the program will be airing could be released. Now we don’t know if it could happen in 2016 or 2029.
Hi Jana, I am also surprised that we haven’t had any additional news about the production. From what I’ve seen so far, it sounds as though they’re aiming for 2017; but I agree that it would be nice to get some confirmation.
Shooting is now scheduled to begin in April of 2017.
Thanks, KB. Do you have a source for this?