Jessica Raine & Peter Capaldi To Star in Amazon's 'The Devil's Hour'
Amazon continues to bring U.K. Originals to American shores, this time with The Devil's Hour. The new thriller-horror series is an original concept from up and coming writer Tom Moran, commissioned by Hartswood Films. It will bring a pedigree cast along with it, with Jessica Raine (Baptiste) and Peter Capaldi (The Personal History of David Copperfield). It's the latest project from Hartswood's founder, executive producer Steven Moffat, the man behind Sherlock and Dracula. (He was also the showrunner for several Doctor Who seasons, including the ones Capaldi starred in.)
According to Deadline, the new series stars Raine as Lucy Chambers, a woman who wakes up in the middle of the night every night at 3:33 a.m. (The "Devil's Hour" in the Western Christian tradition is the hour between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. It's also commonly referred to as the Witching Hour.) Capaldi will play a "reclusive nomad" with a crazed obsession that winds up catching the attention of law enforcement and winds up on the run from the police. Exactly how the two characters are related is not immediately clear from the show's description, though one must assume that's deliberate.
The official synopsis for The Devil's Hour is as follows:
