Dan Simmons's The Terror to premiere in 2017 on AMC

The Terror is an new AMC Horror/drama produced in an anthology form.  The story is about the crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage but instead discovers a monstrous predator out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching one seaman at a time or whole crews, leaving bodies mangled horribly or missing forever.

The stars are Tobias Menzies (Outlander), Jared Harris (The Crown), Ciaran Hinds (Rome), Edward Ashley (In the Heart of the Sea), Paul Ready (Ripper Street) and  Adam Nagaitis (Houdini and Doyle).

Tobias Menzies

Jared Harris\

 

Ciaran Hinds

Edward Ashley

Edward Ashley

Adam Nagaits

 

The Terror is based on  Dan Simmons best seller novel The Terror, which is 

the fictionalized story of  Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Arctic in 1845–1848 to force the Northwest Passage.

  

Created by David Kajganich & Soo Hugh  

Executive producer(s):   

        

    Alexandra Milchan

    David Kajganich

    Ridley Scott

    David Zucker

    Scott Lambert

    Meghan Lyvers

    Dan Simmons

Network:  AMC

Premiere Date: TBA 2017