Despite being renewed for a second season back in February of this year, Variety is reporting that Amazon has now decided to axe the Chloe Grace Moretz-led sci-fi series The Peripheral.
According to reports, the decision to scrap the adaptation of the William Gibson novel was “heavily influenced” by the ongoing writers and actors strikes in Hollywood which would push any second season into 2025, even if production were to begin soon.
Developed by showrunner Scott B. Smith with Westworld’s Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan executive producing, the series starred Moretz as Flynne Fisher, “a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow’s America. Flynne is smart, ambitious, and doomed. She has no future; until the future comes calling for her.”
The first – and only – season of The Peripheral is streaming now on Prime Video, with Moretz starring alongside a cast that includes Jack Reynor, Gary Carr, Eli Goree, Louis Herthum, JJ Feild, T’Nia Miller, Charlotte Riley, Alexandra Billings, Adelind Horan, Alex Hernandez, Katie Leung, Julian Moore-Cook, Melinda Page Hamilton, Chris Coy, and Austin Rising.
