Third installment of ‘The Terror’ returns To AMC after five-year hiatus

One of AMC’s hit franchises, The Terror, is finally returning to the network for its third installment, more than five years after its last season. The third part has been named “The Terror: Devil in Silver” by the network. It comes after season 2, The Terror: Infamy, which premiered back in 2019.

Premiering in 2025, the six-part series is based on a novel – The Devil in Silver – written by Victor LaValle. He is also writing the new iteration alongside Chris Cantwell, who was the showrunner on AMC’s 2014-17 drama Halt and Catch Fire.

Director of Jennifer’s Body and episodes of Yellowjackets, Karyn Kusama, will be directing the first two episodes. He will also executive produce alongside Cantwell, LaValle, Scott Free’s David Zucker, Emjag’s Alexandra Milchan, Management 360’s Guymon Casady and Anjulia Productions’ Scott Lambert.

The then AMC boss Sarah Barnett, in 2020, had spoken about the network’s interest in a third run and how they were exploring topics.

The Terror: Devil in Silver tells the story of “Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets and perhaps even the very devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity that thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls. But doing so might prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.”

The first season of the drama was aired in 2018. It was based on Dan Simmons’ novel. The story was set on the frigid decks of a Victorian Era sailing ship following a doomed course. The Terror: Infamy, season 2, centered on a malevolent, shape-shifting force, locked up with prisoners in a Japanese internment camp.

The first season was created by David Kaiganich, while the second season was developed 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.”

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