After some great success with its Emmy Award-nominated The Alienist, TNT has ordered a sequel series titled The Angel of Darkness. The limited series will reunite The Alienist stars Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning.
Based on Caleb Carr’s follow-up novel to The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness sees Dr. Laszlo Kriezler, John Moore and Sara Howard team up once again to locate the infant daughter of a Spanish dignitary. Throughout the case, the team must deal with rising tensions between Spain and the United States while war in Cuba seems more than likely with every passing day.
“We could not be prouder of The Alienist’s outstanding, award-worthy performance and all of the work the incredible actors and crew put in to bring that story and time period to life,” said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT. “Our audience fell in love with these multi-dimensional, timeless characters and the journey of their struggles living in complicated times. With this new story in TNT’s Suspense Collection, we will further immerse viewers into their world as they are confronted with a new enemy.”
The Angel of Darkness is a co-production of Paramount Television and Turner’s Studio T with Eric Roth, Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Rosalie Swedlin and Cary Joji Fukunaga serving as executive producers.
The Alienist is set in 1896, when a series of gruesome murders of boy prostitutes has gripped the city. Newly appointed top cop Teddy Roosevelt calls upon Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a criminal psychologist — aka alienist — and newspaper illustrator John Moore to conduct the investigation in secret. Joining them in the probe is Sara Howard, a headstrong secretary at Police Headquarters.
