The six-part series, set to premiere in 2025, is based on the novel The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle. He is writing the new version with Chris Cantwell, who was showrunner of AMC's drama Halt & Catch Fire from 2014 to 2017.
In 2020, AMC's then-chief executive Sarah Barnett told Deadline that AMC was interested in a third series and had topics in development.
The Terror: Devil in Silver tells the story of Pepper, a working-class man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad mood, is wrongly admitted to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital - an institution full of people society would rather forget.
There he will have to deal with patients who oppose him, doctors who hide grim secrets and perhaps even the devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellish landscape where nothing is as it seems, he discovers that the only path to freedom is to take on the entity that thrives on suffering within the walls of New Hyde. But if he does, it may turn out that the worst demons live within him.
The book was published in 2013.
Karyn Kusama, who directed the film Jennifer's Body and episodes of Yellowjackets, will direct the first two episodes and will produce alongside Cantwell, LaValle, Scott Free's David Zucker, Emjag's Alexandra Milchan, Management 360's Guymon Casady and Anjulia Productions' Scott Lambert take.
Based on the novel by Dan Simmons and airing in 2018, the first season of The Terror was set on the icy decks of a Victorian-era sailing ship on a doomed course. Season two, titled The Terror: Infamy, centers on an evil shapeshifting force locked up with prisoners in a Japanese internment camp.
The first season, which is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Frankin's lost expedition to the North Pole of 1845-48, was developed by David Kaiganich, while the second season was created by Alexander Woo and Max Borenstein.
“The Terror anthology series has already delivered to fans two unforgettable seasons of storytelling that blend real-world events and characters with a terrifying and mysterious supernatural element,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. “The Devil in Silver offers a perfect opportunity for a new installment of this popular and critically acclaimed anthology. We are looking forward to once again working with Chris Cantwell, who we partnered with so successfully on Halt and Catch Fire, Victor LaValle, Karyn Kusama and this great producing team to share our version of Victor’s heralded and disturbing novel.”
Below you can watch the trailer for the first season of The Terror.
