Donald Glover’s upcoming new sequence Swarm has gotten a launch date and programme makers have shared a brand new teaser trailer – test it out beneath.
The brand new horror sequence was co-created by Glover alongside his Atlanta author Janine Nabers.
The present, which premieres at SXSW on March 10 after which lands on Prime Video on March 17, stars Dominique Fishback as Dre, “a younger girl whose obsession with a pop star takes a darkish flip,” as per the brand new trailer’s YouTube caption.
Test it out right here:
In line with Self-importance Honest, the supply of Dre’s obsession shares similarities with Beyoncé.
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“We had been actually all in favour of creating an antihero story,” Nabers just lately advised Self-importance Honest, citing TV antiheroes like Mad Males’s Don Draper and The Sopranos’ Tony Soprano. They wished to create a brand new model of the archetype “by way of the lens of a Black, modern-day girl”.
“We simply thought it’d be enjoyable to make a post-truth Piano Trainer combined with The King Of Comedy,” Glover added, in reference to the 2001 drama movie by Michael Haneke and Marttin Scorsese’s 1982 black comedy movie.
The crew behind Swarm is comprised principally of people that additionally labored on Atlanta, which got here to an finish after 4 seasons final 12 months. In line with Nabers, the present appears like “a sister to Atlanta” and lives in “the identical tonal area”.
Swarm additionally stars Chloe Bailey as Dre’s sister, Marissa, and Damson Idris as her charismatic boyfriend. Bailey is one half of the Grammy-nominated R&B sister duo Chloe x Halle, who’re signed to Beyoncé’s label Parkwood Leisure.
Glover just lately addressed whether or not he had retired his musical alter ego Infantile Gambino, stating that he’s “making music proper now”.