EXCLUSIVE: Brian Cox shall be again as The Controller in Amazon Prime Video‘s 007: Highway to a Million.
Deadline hears the Succession actor has signed up for Season 2 of the truth competitors sequence, which shall be formally introduced by Amazon within the coming weeks.
Cox embraced the function of The Controller, a machiavellian puppet grasp who units malevolent challenges for the contestants.
Cox has joked that he thought he was signing for a James Bond film when he initially agreed to tackle the 007: Highway to a Million function.
“I believed it was the brand new James Bond movie,” he advised The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon final yr. After agreeing to the job, he realized that “there was no script and there was no James Bond film.”
Though Season 2 is just not but finalized, 72 Movies, the Fremantle-owned manufacturing firm behind 007: Highway to a Million, has been casting a brand new batch of contestants for a while.
Manufacturing is ready to get underway this summer season. Season 1 was an formidable shoot that spanned a number of international locations and noticed contestants full death-defying challenges.
By Amazon’s personal metrics, the sport present rated No1 in 27 international locations on Prime Video, however it failed to interrupt into the highest 50 highest-rated reveals within the UK, based on impartial scores information.
Amazon has loved scores success within the UK this yr. Season 3 of Clarkson’s Farm turned Amazon’s highest-rated present so far, with the opening episode scoring 5.1M viewers. Fallout additionally carried out nicely, premiering with 3.1M.