Crackle announces more 'Comedians in Cars,' new series based on gangster flick 'Snatch'
Get ready for more comedians. And cars. And coffee.
At its upfront presentation on Wednesday, Crackle announced that Jerry Seinfeld's popular series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee would return for another season, featuring a slew of high profile guest stars including Margaret Cho, Judd Apatow, John Oliver and JB Smoove, among others.
The announcement was one of many new details revealed at the presentation, including a much-touted commitment to creating VR content. The first show to kick off Crackle's original VR slate will be animated series SuperMansion, which will receive its own special VR episode. The series, which will be back for a second season, stars Bryan Cranston, Keegan-Michael Key, Jillian Bell and Chris Pine.
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Eric Berger, Crackle's general manager, also spoke about how the streaming service has developed a VR ad strategy that's "unparalleled" in the industry, and will focus on creating an immersive ad experience.
Other original content renewal news includes the game show Sports Jeopardy, a sequel to zombie flick Dead Rising and a second season of crime drama The Art of More, starring and executive produced by Dennis Quaid.
The actor spoke at the upfront, calling the new season a "wild ride" and sharing that his character, Samuel Brukner, will be opening an experimental museum.
"He’s going to resort to some very Machiavellian tactics," Quaid says.
"He’s going to resort to some very Machiavellian tactics."
New original content includes a series based on Guy Ritchie's 2000 film Snatch, which Berger promises will keep up the "same brand of humor and stylized direction." The original film was a wild, violent comedy about gangsters, fighters and thieves, starring Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro, Jason Statham and more. Casting details for the new series have not yet been announced.
The next new one-hour series is Startup, a Miami-based drama centered around a Cuban-American (Otmara Marrero) with a tech idea that sounds a lot like Bitcoin. Adam Brody plays Nick, a banker who wants in on the action, while Edi Gathegi plays Ronald, a Haitian-American gang leader who wants a piece of the pie too.
Watching over it all is Martin Freeman, playing an FBI agent determined to stop all the dirty money being funneled into the business.
Brody, who's also a producer of the show, says he was drawn in by the writing.
"It’s a world that I love living in and spending time in,” he says.
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Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.
