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Exclusive: Lionsgate has closed a deal for Bryce Dallas Howard to direct All of Her, details of which are under wraps.

The feature project is written by Sarah Streicher based on an original story by Jurassic World filmmaker Colin Trevorrow and Streicher. The studio is currently seeking an actress to play the lead character, which encompasses multiple roles.

Metronome Film Company’s Trevorrow and Annys Hamilton will produce. Howard will also produce with her Nine Muses Entertainment.

Nathan Kahane, president, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, said, “This movie has it all—a hugely fun idea, an incredible part for a lead actress, and amazing talent behind it all, with Bryce leading the way as director. We’re excited to get the ball rolling.”

Previously Howard has directed the Apple TV+ feature documentary, Dads, as well as episodes of Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandolorian and The Book of Boba Fett, and...

Yellowjackets is the latest mystery must-watch series that is driving fans wild with all of its exciting revelations. Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, the Showtime series is a mix of horror and drama and it follows a group of highly talented girls high-school soccer team, whose plane crashes deep into the Ontario wilderness, and it quickly becomes a question of life and death for them. Yellowjackets stars Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Ella Purnell, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Christina Ricci, and Juliette Lewis. So, if you loved the survival thriller, horror drama, and mystery aspects of Yellowjackets here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Lost is a sci-fi mystery adventure and survival thriller drama series created by Jeffrey Lieber, J.J. Abrams, and Damon Lindelöf. The ABC series revolves around a group of survivors of...

Outer Banks is considered by so many as one of the most fun teen Netflix originals, and they are correct. Created by Josh Pate, Jonas Pate, and Shannon Burke, the series has something for everyone from romance to teen drama and from adventure to action, and after Season 3 the Netflix series has proven to be a big project for the streamer. So, if you loved the romance, friendships, adventure, and a ton of teen drama in Outer Banks here are some similar shows you should check out while waiting for Season 4.

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Surviving Summer is an Australian teen drama series created by Joanna Werner and Josh Mapleston. The Netflix series follows Summer Torres, a rebellious teenage girl as she is expelled from her school in Brooklyn, New York, and moves to Australia where she quickly gets into surfing and becomes a part of a surfing group.

Exclusive: Verve has grown its partner roster.

The agency has promoted Parker Davis and Tyler Reynolds to partners.

Davis has been Co-Head of the Motion Picture Literary since 2022, while Reynolds is Head of Television Directing.

The move is the latest internal move at the agency, which hired Jenni Ferrari-Adler to its media rights team earlier this year.

Davis was employee number five at the company and was promoted to agent in 2012. His clients include Arkasha Stevenson (The First Omen), Emily Carmichael (Jurassic World: Dominion), James Morosini (I Love My Dad), Richard Wong (The Valet), Derek Connolly (The Legend of Zelda), Bragi Schut (Samaritan) and Sarah Streicher (The Wilds).

Reynolds joined Verve in 2021 through the acquisition of New Deal Mfg. Co. He has a big list of television directors including Fred Berner and Amy Durning, who produced Maestro, Arthur Forney and Anastasia Puglisi, who work with Wolf Entertainment, Allen Coulter (Tulsa...

Exclusive: Scott Stoops has been elevated to Partner at management and production co. Good Fear Content, Partners Chris Bender and Jake Weiner announced on Tuesday.

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A manager at Good Fear since its 2015 founding, Stoops’ roster includes numerous prominent writers and directors across film and TV, a number of which have reached EP or Co-ep level. Among his most notable clients is Megan McDonnell, who was the first writer in on Captain Marvel sequel The Marvels, after serving as a staff writer on the Emmy-winning WandaVision and its forthcoming spin-off Agatha: Coven of Chaos, as well as Apple’s Dark Matter. Others include Rayna McClendon,...

The diversity of animated features — both content and assembly — continues to evolve in lockstep with filmmaking technology’s almost daily leaps and bounds. This ever-changing landscape creates new challenges and opportunities for directors to tell stories that encapsulate everything from epic blockbuster spectacles to personal, relationship-driven dramas.

“Animation is such a powerful medium in exploring complicated themes in an easily accessible way,” says Pixar director Domee Shi, whose “Turning Red” tells the coming-of-age story of Mei, a 13-year-old girl in 2000s-era Toronto, who turns into a giant red panda at the onset of puberty. “I think animation also almost tricks the audience into believing magical logic a little bit more, because it’s already an abstracted version of reality.”

In a process that took more than four years, Shi utilized some of the industry’s most cutting-edge technologies to progressively expand her team of collaborators, from two co-writers (Sarah Streicher...

Exclusive: Actor Alex Fitzalan (Chevalier) has signed with Mosaic for representation.

Fitzalan is an Australian up-and-comer who will next be seen starring alongside Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Samara Weaving in the Searchlight Pictures drama Chevalier, about the composer and violinist of the same name. The film written by Stefani Robinson and directed by Stephen Williams world premiered to critical acclaim at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival and is set for release on April 7, 2023.

Fitzalan made his U.S. screen debut in Sony’s supernatural horror Slender Man directed by Sylvain White, starring there alongside Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sincalir and Annalise Basso. He has since then landed roles on the Australian series The Twelve, as well as Netflix’s The Society from producer Marc Webb, there appearing opposite Kathryn Newton and Gideon Adlon. The actor was also previously seen in the role of Seth Novak in the second season...

This article contains IndieWire’s preliminary Best Original Screenplay predictions for the 2023 Oscars. We regularly update our predictions throughout awards season, and republish previous versions (like this one) for readers to track changes in how the Oscar race has changed. For the latest update on the frontrunners for the 95th Academy Awards, see our 2023 Oscars predictions hub.

Nominations voting is from January 12-17, 2023, with official Oscar nominations announced January 24, 2023. Final voting is March 2-7, 2023. And finally, the 95th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 12 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt. We update predictions through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2023 Oscar picks.

The State of the Race

While there is much to come, this year has already revealed several Best Original Screenplay contenders. Given that this specific Academy Awards category often celebrates narrative ingenuity, a film like “Everything Everywhere All at Once,...

Exclusive: Verve has made several key promotions this week across the motion picture and television literary teams with Partners Felicia Prinz and Chris Noriega being upped to Co-Heads overseeing the Television Literary Team, Parker Davis and Liz Parker will assume the Co-Head mantle of the Motion Picture Literary Team, and Tyler Reynolds has been promoted to head the Television Director Team. Reynolds will report to Prinz and Noriega. In these newly created positions, Prinz, Noriega, Davis, Parker, and Reynolds will be responsible for the day-to-day management of their respective teams while working alongside the Partnership to streamline decision making, communication and to provide strategic support.

“As Verve continues to scale, we realize that empowering our valuable colleagues is the best way to maintain our unique work culture while providing the best creative representation in the business,” said the Partnership. “Felicia, Chris, Parker, Liz, and Tyler are highly respected by their colleagues,...

The story of this group of young survivors won't get a third season. Prime Video has cancelled The Wilds TV series so, there won't be a third season.

Starring Rachel Griffiths, David Sullivan, Troy Winbush, Sophia Ali, Sarah Pidgeon, Jenna Clause, Erana James, Mia Healey, Helena Howard, Reign Edwards, and Shannon Berry, The Wilds series follows the female survivors of a plane crash on a deserted island. In season two, a group of young males finds themselves in the same situation. Both groups are forced to navigate emotional and physical obstacles in the face of their extreme circumstances. The male survivors are played by Zack Calderon, Aidan Laprete, Nicholas Coombe, Charles Alexander, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Reed Shannon, Tanner Ray Rook, and Alex Fitzalan.

The Wilds was created by Sarah Streicher and ordered to series in May 2019.

The island experiment is over as Amazon has canceled its Prime Video series The Wilds after two seasons. According to Deadline, the cast and crew of the young adult survival series were informed of the decision on Thursday, July 28. The teen drama debuted on December 11, 2020, and earned a quick renewal following a positive fan response. The second season was released on May 6, 2022, and the fate of the show remained in limbo until now. Created by Sarah Streicher and developed and produced by the late Jamie Tarses, The Wilds centered on a group of teenage girls who are left stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash but are unaware they are the subjects of a social experiment. Season 2 introduced a group of teenage boys that were part of the same experiment on another island — the season ended on a cliffhanger bringing the two groups together. The cast features Sophia Ali,...

“The Wilds” has been canceled at Amazon Prime Video after two seasons, Variety has confirmed.

The drama series revolves around a group of teenage girls who are left stranded on an island following a plane crash — and soon discover that it is all part of a social experiment. The show’s first season launched on Dec. 11, 2020 and Season 2 premiered on May 6.

The series starred Sophia Ali, Shannon Berry, Jenna Clause, Reign Edwards, Mia Healey, Helena Howard, Erana James, Sarah Pidgeon, David Sullivan, Troy Winbush, Rachel Griffiths, Charles Alexander, Zack Calderon, Nicholas Coombe, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Aidan Laprete, Tanner Ray Rook and Reed Shannon.

“The Wilds” is created and executive produced by Sarah Streicher alongside showrunner and executive producer Amy B. Harris. The late Jamie Tarses of FanFare and Dylan Clark of Dylan Clark Productions served as executive producers. The series is co-produced by Amazon Studios and ABC Signature, part of Disney Television Studios.

“The Wilds” will be taking off from the runway for Season 3: Prime Video has canceled the popular YA survival series after two seasons, TheWrap has confirmed.

Season 2, which expanded the show’s narrative with the addition of an all-male high school “control group,” premiered on the streamer May 6, delayed by two-and-a-half years as a result of the pandemic.

Despite having premiered a year earlier, the series has drawn comparisons with the Emmy-nominated “Yellowjackets” (which began development and shooting on its pilot around the same time in 2020) for its focus on a group of girls who get stranded following a plane crash. That’s where the two shows’ similarities end: The misfortune the high schoolers in “The Wilds” face stems from a larger conspiracy experiment led by Dawn of Eve founder Gretchen Klein (Rachel Griffiths), who posits that women can run a better society against all obstacles. The girls are...

It's game over for The Wilds.

Deadline reports that Prime Video has canceled the buzzy drama after two seasons.

The series burst onto the screen in 2020, landing a speedy renewal and rave reviews.

As the first YA series on the streaming service, it broke through in a way many shows that followed it did not.

However, the second season premiered in May, failing to reach its predecessor's success.

Season 2 of The Wilds continued to follow the harrowing ordeal of a group of teenage girls stranded on a deserted island, and they didn't end up there by accident - they've secretly been recruited into an elaborate social experiment.

The season ratchets up the drama by revealing that the girls aren't the only ones being studied... there's a new set of subjects, an island of teenage boys, who must also fight for survival under the watchful eye of the experiment's puppet master.

Prime Video is leaving The Wilds behind: The streamer has cancelled the YA survivalist drama after two seasons, TVLine has confirmed.

Season 2, which debuted May 6, followed two different stories of survival. While the teenage girls whose plane crashed in the ocean in the first season continued to acclimate to their situation, a new crop of characters in experiment mastermind Gretchen’s all-male control group began their survivalist journey on their own island before being “rescued.”

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Exclusive: Prime Video’s The Wilds will not return for a third season. I hear the cast and crew of the YA survival drama were just told about the decision, which comes almost three months after Season 2 was released May 6.

The Wilds, one of the last shows developed and produced by the late Jamie Tarses, was an important series for Prime Video and Amazon Studios. It was part of the very first batch of YA pilots ordered by Amazon Studios soon after Jennifer Salke took the reins as part of an expansion in that arena. It was the first YA series to premiere on Prime Video and the first to go to a second season.

Prime Video remains committed to young-adult content with a slate that includes recent breakouts The Summer I Turned Pretty, The Boys Presents: Diabolical and Invincible as well as the upcoming series Shelter, based on the...

The minds of teenage girls have always beguiled us. From the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic to the college rape crisis, young women’s memories have been weaponized, dissected, repurposed, debated. But the experiences of this group are rarely earnestly considered without agenda.

It naturally follows that much media about and for teenage girls approaches them shallowly. Notably, “Euphoria,” perhaps this season’s most popular series about teenage girls, only managed to keep its protagonist, Rue — whose arc is inspired by writer Sam Levinson’s own life — three-dimensional. Its other young women were sacrificed to inane stories of romance and cattiness.

Luckily, change has been coming. A few recent shows have demonstrated some much-needed interest in the teen girl psyche. Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” Amazon Prime’s “The Wilds” and Freeform’s “Cruel Summer” all center young women’s experiences. These girls are often unreliable narrators, and their accounts...

For “The Wilds” writers, executive producers and showrunners Sarah Streicher and Amy B. Harris, the island on which a group of teen women — and in Season 2, a control group of adolescent boys — are trapped (as unwilling participants in a twisted sociological experiment) is a metaphor for coming of age, which, Harris told TheWrap, is “very dark for a lot of people.”

“And the idea that you can be seen and that a story that you relate to or feels like it’s a part of what you went through — even if it’s dark — deserves, I think, to be told,” she added.

When the Prime Video show premiered in late 2020, it unraveled a complex survivalist narrative featuring young women in hostile opposition to their surrounding environment, themselves and often each other. They were forced to learn how to hunt, build shelter and make peace with their horrifying newfound situation. Season...

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. In the case of "The Wilds," things get way worse, like comically bad. The second season of the teen survivalist story, which hit Prime Video on May 6, shows the group fighting extreme physical and mental exhaustion while gradually uncovering the Dawn of Eve experiment that's the cause of their suffering. There's also the introduction of male castaways, unknowing participants of the Twilight of Adam program. Though both groups collectively rebel by the end, escape is not yet earned.

The cast similarly experienced successes and obstacles while filming the challenging season. Sarah Pidgeon, who plays Leah Rilke, and Reign Edwards, who plays Rachel Reid, spoke to Popsugar about bonding with their costars, shaping their characters, and shooting their most difficult scenes.

Pidgeon continues to portray the group's relentless whistleblower, but in season two, Leah questions her judgment as she experiences vivid hallucinations.

Warning: The following contains spoilers for The Wilds Season 2. Proceed at your own risk!

Welcome to Phase 3, The Wilds fans.

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The Season 2 finale of Prime Video’s teen survivalist drama revealed that Leah had been playing Gretchen and that she’d managed to get a call out to her friend Ian,...

Prime Video’s “The Wilds” is back for a second season of danger, island survival, and a social experiment none of the teen girls signed up for. This time around, though, we won’t just be following the stories of Toni, Shelby, Martha, Rachel, Leah and Dot. As we learned at the end of Season 1, Gretchen Klein is conducting the exact same experiment with a group of teen boys, leading to an expanded Season 2 world.

“I know a lot of people were worried we were just leaving the girls behind. That is 100 not happening,” executive producer Amy B. Harris told TheWrap. “We are going to be exploring some of the boys’ backstories, not all of them, some of them in tandem with each other, so that we can really split the – we really want to be with the girls and with the boys half and half and what was so...

Warning: The following contains spoilers for The Wilds Season 2. Proceed at your own risk!

The Wilds took a trippy musical turn in Season 2 when Leah’s battle with her own mind led to recurring hallucinations featuring a surprising guest star: singer-songwriter Ben Folds!

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Over the course of the last three episodes,...

The island drama is about to get even more expansive on The Wilds.

Season 2 of the Prime Video series (premiering with all eight episodes this Friday) follows two different stories of survival. While the teenage girls whose plane crashed in the ocean in the first season continue to acclimate to their situation, a new crop of characters in experiment mastermind Gretchen’s all-male control group are just beginning their survivalist journey on their own island.

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It’s hard to believe that by the Season 1 finale of “The Wilds” two years ago, the eight teenage girls left to fend for themselves on a remote island after a plane crash had only been stranded for three weeks. The Amazon Prime Video series creator Sarah Streicher’s well-written script and excellent casting made this series one of the most talked-about in 2020, and its second season is has been hotly anticipated ever since. Although we’ve seen versions of this premise before, what makes “The Wilds” unique is that it’s clear from the start that what we’re witnessing is an experiment.

Social scientist Gretchen Klein (Rachel Griffiths) has one goal: to prove that a matriarchal-led society is more efficient and less violent than our current Western male-dominated one. So she sets out to prove her hypothesis with a ridiculously well-funded and carefully orchestrated social experiment disguised as...

Amazon’s Prime Video has released the official trailer for Season 2 of “The Wilds,” the popular teen survival series returning this spring.

Created by Sarah Streicher, “The Wilds” focuses on a group of teenage girls who survive a plane crash and are forced to work together to survive on a strange deserted island. Unbeknownst to them, the eight teenagers are subject to a strange social experiment engineered by Gretchen Klein (Rachel Griffiths), the head of a women’s empowerment program Dawn of Eve. Sophia Ali, Shannon Berry, Jenna Clause, Reign Edwards, Mia Healey, Helena Howard, Erana James and Sarah Pidgeon star as the girls stranded on the island, while David Sullivan and Troy Winbush star as FBI agents who appear in flashforwards after the group is rescued from the island.

Season 2 of “The Wilds” will see the girls learn of the existence of another island, where another crash was staged,...

“Once upon a time, two plane crashes were staged. All of the victims were dosed and stranded on two islands.”

So begins “The Wilds” Season 2 trailer, confirming the cliffhanger ending of the first Prime Video season, which premiered in December 2020.

The gendered social experiment “The Rise of Eve” led to the discovery of the all-male “control group,” which eerily mirrors the girls’ group, consisting of Sarah Pidgeon, Helena Howard, Mia Healey, Erana James, Sophia Taylor Ali, Shannon Berry, Reign Edwards, and Jenna Clause.

“Brothers and Sisters” alum Rachel Griffiths stars as the mastermind scientist behind the boundary-pushing experiment to create a utopia.

“The Wilds” is created by Sarah Streicher, and Season 2 premieres May 6 on Prime Video. The first trailer for the second season shows that the boys’ group, dubbed “The Fall of Adam,” is now at the center of the “Lord of the Flies”-esque series.

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“South Park” is celebrating its upcoming 25th anniversary with the announcement of a new episode set to premiere on March 2, as well as a 30-piece orchestral rendition of its hit song, “Chocolate Salty Balls.”

The song was featured on the show’s first season, and went on to claim the No. 1 spot on the U.K. charts. It was written by “South Park” co-creator Trey Parker, who, along with Matt Stone, went on to write the Tony Award-winning musical “The Book of Mormon.” “Chocolate Salty Balls” was originally performed by the late Isaac Hayes, who played the character of Chef on the series for its first nine seasons.

“South Park” launched on Comedy Central on Aug. 13, 1997, co-created by Stone and Parker. Parker, Stone, Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II are the show’s executive producers. Producers are Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman.

Watch the orchestral...

Prime Video’s teen survival drama The Wilds will return for Season 2 in May.

The Wilds will return to the streaming service on May 6. Season 2 will continue to follow the harrowing ordeal of eight teenage girls stranded on a deserted island under mysterious circumstances. The new season will also focus on a new group of survivors, all boys, who find themselves in the same perilous situation. Both groups will be forced to navigate emotional and physical obstacles in the face of their extreme circumstances.

Set to return are Rachel Griffiths, David Sullivan, Troy Winbush, Sophia Ali, Sarah Pidgeon, Jenna Clause, Erana James, Mia Healey, Helena Howard, Reign Edwards and Shannon Berry. Joining as the second group of survivors are Zack Calderon, Aidan Laprete, Nicholas Coombe, Charles Alexander, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Reed Shannon, Tanner Ray Rook and Alex Fitzalan.

Also unveiled on Tuesday were Season 2 first-look images, which tease new relationships, tensions and more.

The Wilds Season 2 is almost ready for its close-up.

Prime Video has revealed the hit YA drama series premieres its second season on May 6, 2022.

The series will drop in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on that date.

Season 2 of The Wilds will continue to follow the harrowing ordeal of a group of teenage girls stranded on a deserted island, and they didn't end up there by accident - they've secretly been recruited into an elaborate social experiment.

The new season ratchets up the drama by revealing that the girls aren't the only ones being studied... there's a new set of subjects, an island of teenage boys, who must also fight for survival under the watchful eye of the experiment's puppet master.

The series was a huge hit for Prime Video when it launched in 2020.

New cast members for The Wilds Season 2 include Alex Fitzalan (The Society) as Seth Novak,...

Exclusive: A crew of eight actors will join the Season 2 cast of Amazon’s YA drama The Wilds.

Set to appear in the sophomore season are Zack Calderon, Aidan Laprete, Nicholas Coombe, Charles Alexander, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Reed Shannon, Tanner Ray Rook and Alex Fitzalan. They will join returning cast Rachel Griffiths, David Sullivan, Troy Winbush, Sophia Ali, Sarah Pidgeon, Jenna Clause, Erana James, Mia Healey, Helena Howard, Reign Edwards and Shannon Berry.

The Wilds in Season 2 will continue to follow the harrowing ordeal of eight teenage girls stranded on a deserted island under mysterious circumstances. The new season will also focus on a new group of survivors, all boys, who find themselves in the same perilous situation. Both groups will be forced to navigate emotional and physical obstacles in the face of their extreme circumstances.

The Wilds is created and executive produced by Sarah Streicher alongside showrunner Amy Harris, the late Jamie Tarses of Fanfare,...

Queensland has snared the second season of Amazon Prime Video’s The Wilds from across the ditch.

Thanks to $9.8 million from the Federal Government and support from theQueensland Government’s Production Attraction Strategy, the ABC Signature series, starring Aussies Rachel Griffiths, Mia Healey and Shannon Berry, will shoot on the Gold Coast in April. The expectation is the production will create 270 jobs for cast and crew and add $73 million to the local economy.

The young adult drama is the second international production announced for Australia this week via the government’s Location Incentive Program, with Netflix’s God’s Favourite Idiot set to shoot in Nsw’s Northern Rivers.

Since the government topped up the incentive with $400 million last July, the program has attracted 11 productions, with the others Australian Survivor, The Tourist, Thirteen Lives, Escape From Spiderhead, Pieces of Her, Blacklight, Irreverent, Joe Exotic and Young Rock.

Created by Sarah Streicher and showrun by Amy B.

One of the last series produced by Jamie Tarses, who passed away this morning at the age of 56, was Amazon Prime Video’s The Wilds. It premiered when Tarses was in a coma following an early fall cardiac episode that ultimately led to her death.

The Wilds, Amazon’s first YA series, was a breakout hit and was quickly renewed for a second season. And while Tarses was not able to celebrate the show’s success, her input played a key part in it from the start.

Created by Sarah Streicher, The Wilds was originally ordered to pilot in the spring of 2018 as one of new head Jennifer Salke’s first greenlight decisions.

“I’d never had a pilot produced before, so I felt like a babe in the woods through every step of the development process,” Streicher recalls. “But Jamie had strength and wisdom to spare, and she gave of it so liberally,...

Amazon Prime’s The Wilds is returning for more dystopic slumber-party drama.

Announced on Instagram Saturday by the show’s cast (who can be seen celebrating in the video below), the story follows a group of teen girls from different backgrounds who must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. “The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep and the traumas they’ve all endured,” according to the official synopsis. Oh, and one more rather ominous twist: “The girls did not end up on this island by accident.

“The Wilds” has been renewed for Season 2 at Amazon Prime Video, the platform said Saturday.

The YA series, which premiered Dec. 11, is described by the streaming service as “part survival drama, part dystopic slumber party.”

“The Wilds,” Amazon Prime Video’s first real venture into young-adult programming, follows a group of teen girls from different backgrounds who must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island, per Amazon. The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep and the traumas they’ve all endured. There’s just one twist to this thrilling drama… these girls did not end up on this island by accident.

There’s no word yet on when Season 2 will go into production or when Amazon expects to launch the episodes.

“The Wilds” stars Sophia Ali as Fatin Jadmani, Shannon Berry as Dot Campbell,...

Amazon has renewed “The Wilds” for a second season.

The show’s official Twitter account broke the news on Saturday with a video of the cast celebrating, captioned “did someone say season 2??”

did someone say season 2?? #TheWilds pic.twitter.com/ZVDe1sFfx0

— The Wilds (@thewildsonprime) December 19, 2020

“The Wilds” follows a group of young girls who become stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. The first season consisted of 10 episodes, which all released on Amazon Prime Video Dec. 11.

“The Wilds” was created by Sarah Streicher and stars Rachel Griffiths (Gretchen Klein), Sophia Taylor Ali (Fatin Jadmani), Shannon Berry (Dot Campbell), Sarah Pidgeon (Leah Rilke), Erana James (Toni Shalifoe), Jenna Clause (Martha Blackburn), David Sullivan (Daniel Faber), Troy Winbush (Dean Young), Helena Howard (Nora Reid), Reign Edwards (Rachel Reid) and Mia Healey (Shelby Goodkind).

The show is executive produced by Streicher, Amy B. Harris, Dylan Clark and Jamie Tarses.

Harris...

Amazon Studios has renewed its first young adult series, The Wilds, for a second season. The cast made the announcement today on social media. (you can watch it below)

Getting into the YA space was a main priority for Amazon Studios President Jennifer Salke. Shortly after she joined the company, she ordered three YA pilots with two, The Wilds and Panic, going to series. The Wilds was the first to premiere earlier this month.

Part survival drama, part dystopic slumber party, The Wilds follows a group of teenage girls from radically different backgrounds after an airplane crash strands them on a deserted island.

The Wilds was created by Sarah Streicher who executive produces alongside showrunner Amy Harris, Jamie Tarses of Fanfare, and Dylan Clark and Brian Williams for Dylan Clark Productions. Susanna Fogel directed and served as executive producer for the pilot. The Wilds is co-produced by Amazon Studios and ABC Signature Studios,...

Amazon has renewed its YA drama The Wilds for a second season, it was announced Saturday.

The cast of the series revealed the news in a video posted on social media (watch the announcement below).

The Wilds follows a group of teenage girls from different backgrounds as they fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. The twist, Amazon teases, is that the girls didn’t end up there by accident. The first, 10-episode season debuted on Amazon Prime Video on Dec. 10.

The series, created by Daredevil writer Sarah Streicher, is part of Amazon Studios boss Jennifer ...

Amazon has renewed its YA drama The Wilds for a second season, it was announced Saturday.

The cast of the series revealed the news in a video posted on social media (watch the announcement below).

The Wilds follows a group of teenage girls from different backgrounds as they fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. The twist, Amazon teases, is that the girls didn’t end up there by accident. The first, 10-episode season debuted on Amazon Prime Video on Dec. 10.

The series, created by Daredevil writer Sarah Streicher, is part of Amazon Studios boss Jennifer ...

[Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for Amazon Prime Video’s “The Wilds.”]

Not to get too “12 Days of Christmas” about it, but on Amazon Prime Video’s “The Wilds” there are nine female leads, six female directors, four female executive producers, four female writers, and a female stunt coordinator. It’s a series by women, for women, and about women — and given the rigors of the emotional subject manner and the YA audience’s bloodhound instinct for phoniness, using a cast and crew composed of people who have actually been teenage girls makes perfect sense.

It shouldn’t be that audacious, and yet it feels like it is. It also breaks boundaries because of the cross-genre storytelling — it’s both a survival tale and a coming-of-age story — and the fact that many of the characters are forced to deal with intersectional bias in their arcs.

The logline is deceptively simple: Nine teenage girls are, ostensibly,...

[Editor’s Note: This review contains spoilers for Season 1 of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Wilds,” including the ending. For a spoiler-free review, click here.]

Now, I’m sure you all did what I suggested in my spoiler-free review of “The Wilds” and refrained from blowing through all 10 episodes in two days, right?

Of course you didn’t. So welcome to the review with spoilers.

On the surface, “The Wilds” is about a group of troubled teenage girls who are en route to a female empowerment retreat in Kona, Hawaii, when their plane crashes. They wind up on a deserted tropical island in the middle of nowhere and are forced to join together to survive, despite their disparate backgrounds and personalities.

That is, in fact, about 30 percent of what “The Wilds” is about. But creator Sarah Streicher’s work is more “Euphoria” than “Lost,” and more “The Usual Suspects” than “Lord of the Flies.”

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Not long after they’ve crash landed on a remote beach with no help in sight, the teen girl castaways of “The Wilds” put their situation into a perspective they can understand. Brainstorming a way to signal for help, pragmatic leader Dot (Shannon Berry) tosses surly athlete Rachel (Reign Edwards) a makeup mirror from one of their sea-drenched suitcases, insisting that she take it on their hike to reflect the sunlight back into the sky. “I saw them do it on ‘Bear Grylls,'” Dot shrugs, which is good enough for Rachel. As “The Wilds” likes to remind us at every given opportunity, these girls may be resilient, but they’re also just teenagers who were busy dealing with angst and trauma until they stumbled into this bizarre and terrifying new reality. If making it through this experience alive means recalling some bit of expertise from marathoning “Survivor” back home,...

“There’s something wrong when the figure you most identify with when you’re 12 — in terms of thoughts, feelings and ideas — is Anne Frank,” Rachel Griffiths said, speaking in Auckland on the set of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Wilds.” “There’s a fucking problem that you’re a Catholic girl in Melbourne and you have to go to Anne Frank to find a view of a girl wrestling with the huge questions of humanity, fear, and anxiety.”

“The Wilds,” the commerce and streaming giant’s first move into young adult series programming, debuts December 11, and it’s a big, risky, sprawling cross-genre project. In addition to Griffiths, it has a huge cast and a tricky narrative, one that shows the lengths young women have to go to in order to regain their agency under the pressures of modern life.

The logline for “The Wilds” is simple: It’s “Lost” meets “Lord of the Flies,...

Growing up is hard. Anybody who has made it far enough to look back knows that's true.

Amazon's first Young Adult series comes from creator/executive producer Sarah Streicher, executive producer/showrunner Amy B. Harris, and executive producers Jamie Tarses and Dylan Clark.

Featuring a female-driven story and a winning ensemble cast of impressive young women with a stunning turn from Rachel Griffiths, The Wilds, at first, seems like a combination of a gender-switched Lord of the Flies and ABC's Lost.

But at its core, The Wilds is all about growing up female and how easily young women can be beaten down and turned around despite family and friends' best intentions to keep them grounded.

The Wilds introduces us to eight young women on their way to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend a retreat called "The Dawn of Eve," but before they ever get there, their plane crashes into the ocean,...

Leah has her head buried in a book. Fatin’s makeup is perfect. Martha is worried about her best friend, Toni, who seems increasingly angry. Nora is quiet. Her athletic sister, Rachel, is diligently measuring her food on an app that makes her iPhone double as a scale. Shelby is blonde and sunny. Dot is confrontational. Jeanette doesn’t know when to stop talking.

All of them are sitting in a chartered plane en route to Hawaii to attend a young women’s empowerment retreat — The Dawn of Eve — over a long weekend.

The plane takes off, things don’t go as planned, and these caricatures — purposefully crafted to hit the stereotypical marks of every teen show ever — are about to become the most compelling teenage girl characters seen in a genre TV program since “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

Creator Sarah Streicher (“Daredevil”) takes a big swing on “The Wilds,...

'The Wilds' trailer has arrived and it gives us a glimpse at Amazon Prime Video's first YA series.

The streaming giant released the official trailer for the upcoming series 'The Wilds', which is described as "part survival drama, party dystopic slumber party."

According to reports, the show consists of 10 episodes and will be available to everyone, for a limited time, on Prime Video with no account necessary to watch as well on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook from Dec. 11-25. The first episode can be watched for free without a Prime account.

'The Wilds' follows a group of high school students, each dealing with their respective growing pains, who get stranded on a deserted island and must fight for survival after their plane crashes.

The series features Rachel Griffiths, Shannon Berry, Sophia Ali, Reign Edwards, Jenna Clause, Mia Healey, Erana James, Sarah Pidgeon, Helena Howard, David Sullivan, and Troy Winbush.

In today’s TV news roundup, Disney Plus unveiled a trailer for “High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special,” and Amazon Prime Video announced a release date for “The Wilds.”

Casting

Cybill Shepherd has joined the cast of Showtime’s comedy pilot for “I Love This For You,” which will star Vanessa Bayer, who also co-created the show, inspired by her own life. The show will follows a woman who beats childhood leukemia and pursues her dream of hosting a home shopping channel. Shepherd’s character, Patricia Kunken, is the founder of a shopping network. She is known for her roles in shows like “Moonlighting” and the Golden Globe-winning “Cybill.” Jeremy Beiler co-created the show alongside Bayer. They executive produce alongside Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, Jordana Mollick, showrunner Jessi Klein and director Michael Showalter.

Renewals

MTV announced that series “Siesta Key” has been given the go-ahead for Season 4, with production beginning in Sarasota,...

Being a teenager is tough. It’s especially tough being a teenager when your plane crashes on a deserted island. That’s the premise of Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming “The Wilds,” which will premiere December 11. Amazon released the trailer today for “The Wilds,” which has been billed as Prime Video’s first YA show.

The show’s official synopsis reads: “Part survival drama, part dystopic slumber party, ‘The Wilds’ follows a group of teen girls from different backgrounds who must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep, and the traumas they’ve all endured. There’s just one twist to this thrilling drama… these girls did not end up on this island by accident.”

The first episode of the series will be available to stream for...

It’ll be “part survival drama, part dystopic slumber party,” when The Wilds premieres on Amazon Prime in December.

The streaming service released on Wednesday both a full trailer (above) and a key art poster (below) for Season 1 of the YA drama, which premieres Friday, Dec. 11 — and which will also stream its first episode for free on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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The first trailer has dropped for Amazon's upcoming series, The Wilds, and it's one you do not want to miss.

The Wilds is billed as part survival drama, part slumber party, and that comes mighty close to the vibe the series evokes.

It's one of the most original and exciting shows coming your way in 2020.

The rest of the synopsis goes like this:

The Wilds follows a group of teen girls from different backgrounds who must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island.

The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep, and the traumas they've all endured.

There’s just one twist to this thrilling drama… these girls did not end up on this island by accident.

The series stars industry veteran Rachel Griffiths, as well as a mix of familiar and fresh faces that include Sophia Ali,...

Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters alumna Rachel Griffiths, David Sullivan, Troy Winbush (The Goldbergs), Sophia Ali, Sarah Pidgeon (Gotham), Jenna Clause and Erana James (Golden Boy) are set as series regulars in Amazon’s young adult drama series The Wilds from writer-executive producer Sarah Streicher (Daredevil) and ABC Signature Studios, part of Disney Television Studios. They join previously announced cast Mia Healey, Helena Howard, Reign Edwards and Shannon Berry. Production began last month in New Zealand.

Part survival drama, part dystopic slumber party, The Wilds follows a group of teenage girls from radically different backgrounds after an airplane crash strands them on a deserted island.

Griffiths will play Gretchen Klein, an ambitious intellectual who runs an all-girls empowerment retreat.

Sullivan will portray Dr. Daniel Faber, an FBI trauma specialist. He’s a pro at putting his interviewees at ease and extracting valuable information from them.