Amazon Unveils Projects Featuring Tony Shalhoub, Anil Kapoor & Others

SEATTLE: Amazon has revealed the lineup for its spring 2017 pilot season, which includes The Legend of Master Legend, from Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue (Transparent).

The Legend of Master Legend is a dark comedy about a homemade superhero in Las Vegas juggling the demands of his duty and his family. Further pilots include Budding Prospects, from Terry Zwigoff (Bad Santa), a 1980s pot comedy based on the T.C. Boyle novel of the same name; The New V.I.P.’s, from Steve Dildarian (The Life & Times of Tim), Amazon’s first adult animated comedy in which a group of low-level employees seize control of a major corporation after accidentally murdering their boss; The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, from creator Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls), about a 1958 New York City woman who goes from uptown housewife to stand-up comic in Greenwich Village; and Oasis, from Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies), that follows a chaplain who is sent into space to help establish a colony on a distant planet.

Tony Shalhoub (Monk) is featured in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The pilot for Oasis stars Indian actor and producer Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire, 24), as well as Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense, Alpha House).

The pilots will debut on Amazon Video on March 17 in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria and Japan. Customers are invited to stream and review the pilots to help determine the next Amazon original series that are then available to Prime members. The pilots will be available via the Amazon Prime Video app for TVs, connected devices or online.