“If anyone can get this done, it’s your mother,” Freddie Highmore‘s Edward hears in the first trailer for Prime Video thriller The Assassin Season 2.
Amazon’s streaming service has released a trailer and pencilled in a November 6 launch date for the show in the UK and Ireland. Banijay Rights is selling piecemeal elsewhere, except in Germany, where ZDF has the show, and Australia, where it is on Stan.
The Assassin stars Keeley Hawes the mother in question, Julie, opposite Highmore, who plays her son. Season 2’s trailer shows hitwoman Julie reluctantly teaming up with Edward once again, when his dream honeymoon with Kayla (Shalom Brune-Franklin) is hijacked and his new wife take hostage. “The honeymoon… couldn’t get any worse,” deadpans Edward as he reveals the news to his mom.
The pair are then thrown back into a world of high-speed car chases, international crime and kidnapping in Spain, as their fragile relationship is tested to the core.
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Also returning alongside Hawes, Highmore and Brune-Franklin is Devon Terrell, with Arnaud Bindard, Natalia Tena, Boris Van Severen, Jacqueline Boatswain and Monic Hendrickx joining the cast along with Karl El-Santos, Mehdi Regragui, Casimiro Aguza, Tony Corvillo, Amin Hamada and Lolo Herrero.
Two Brothers Pictures produced the show for Prime Video UK and Ireland, ZDF in Germany and Stan in Australia in association with Banijay Entertainment stablemate Banijay Rights. Harry and Jack Williams, who both also serve as executive producers, are the writers, with Sarah Hammond, Alex Mercer and Daisy Mount also serving as EPs for Two Brothers Pictures, and Hawes and Highmore also serving in the same roles.
John Griffin is producer with Terry McDonough, another executive producer – directing episodes 1-3 and Sarah O’Gorman directing episodes 4-6. Jessica Mescall serves as casting director. Filming on series 2 took place in Malta.
Season 1 of the show streamed in the U.S. on AMC+.
