‘Perry Mason’, HBO’s upcoming courtroom drama based on the popular crime novels by Erle Stanley Gardner, is slated to release on 21st June on the platform. In India, it will stream on Disney Plus Hotstar Premium, which has a tie-up with HBO that allows it to stream its shows.
The recently released trailer for Perry Mason shows Emmy-winner Matthew Rhys in the titular role, and it suits him to the T. Set in 1931 Los Angeles, in the midst of the Great Depression, the new spin on the popular criminal defense lawyer Perry Mason is distinctly noir-ish in tone and texture.
HBO‘s version of Perry Mason acts more like an origin story for the lawyer rather than portraying him as the famed defense lawyer labelled ‘unbeatable’. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage, when the case of the decade breaks down his door. As he embarks on the case — of a child kidnapping gone very, very wrong — his “relentless pursuit of the truth reveals a fractured city and, just maybe, a pathway to redemption for himself.”
“Everybody’s up to something. Hiding something. Everybody’s got an angle. And everybody is guilty,” he says in the trailer.
Matthew Rhys, with a Fedora perched on his head, makes a compelling figure in the series trailer. Accompanying him in the series are Emmy winners John Lithgow and Tatiana Maslany, besides Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham, Stephen Root, Gayle Rankin, Nate Corddry, Veronica Falcon, Jefferson Mays, Lili Taylor, Andrew Howard, Eric Lange and Robert Patrick.
Perry Mason has been executive produced by, Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, Amanda Burrell, Ron Fitzgerald, Joe Horacek, Rolin Jones and Timothy Van Patten. The last has also directed the series. Matthew Rhys is the producer of the series, which has been adapted for the screen by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald.
See the teaser trailer below –
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