‘The Head’ Season 2 Teaser Trailer, Premiere on HBO Max, U.S., Spain

The Mediapro Studio has dropped a teaser for “The Head” Season 2, with first footage within the run-up to its simultaneous premiere on HBO Max within the U.S. and Spain on Dec. 22.

Season 2 rolls off a primary season which has proved one in all Spain’s largest breakout hits, offered by the The Mediapro Studio Distribution to over 90 international locations together with top-echelon gamers HBO Max for the U.S., plus Starzplay (U.Ok., Germany), Canal Plus (France), and Amazon’s Prime Video (Italy, Netherlands). 

It additionally performed to constructive vital reactions. “Watching this, I might virtually really feel the ice crystals forming on my beard – and I don’t also have a beard,” Suzi Feay wrote in The Monetary Occasions. 

Produced as soon as extra in affiliation with Hulu Japan, Season 2, whose teaser-trailer has been shared in exclusivity with Selection, is described  by TMS as an “action-packed suspense thriller.” Nothing within the teaser belies that billing. Season 2 retains lots of the hallmarks of Season 1: Isolation; a survival thriller come homicide thriller; no police till possibly close to the tip, a fast shot of troopers with night time lenses suggests; and, once more, a decapitated head, making an early look. 

But it surely’s additionally a step up in scale from the primary season, the teaser’s first picture a drone shot of a real-life tanker, Alexandria within the collection, 144 meter lengthy by 22 meters extensive tanker, able to carrying 12,000 tons of containers, Drector Jorge Dorado, again from Season 1, shot on board it with actors for 3 weeks.

Arthur Wilde (John Lynch, “The Terror,” “The Fall”), in Season 1 head of Polaris VI’s scientific mission within the Antarctic, and Maggie (Katharine O’Donnelly, “Mary, Queen of Scots”), the station’s younger physician, are each on board, once more searching for an answer to local weather change. 

However Arthur is a unique man, in some ways,  a Mipcom presentation of “The Head” Season 2 made clear: Damaged after a yr in jail, petrified of Maggie, and reunited along with his daughter, Rachel, performed by Olivia Morris (“Lodge Portofino”).

Arthur is eager to show his price to Rachel; her emotions for her father evolve from scorn to pity to belief, Morris mentioned at Mipcom. 

“The Head” Season 2 drives deeper into character, its co-creator Ran Tellem, TMS director of worldwide content material improvement, mentioned in Cannes. 

The teaser’s main focus, nevertheless, is on its motion and its stars. Glimpsed in a whiplash-edited motion collage are Irish actor Moe Dunford (“Vikings”), the ship’s head of safety; Hovik Keuchkerian (“Cash Heist,” “Riot Police”), a crew member who appears to be like in a single shot as if he’s shedding it; Spanish actor Enrique Arce (“Cash Heist,” “Rifkin’s Pageant”); younger Japanese actor Sota Fukushi; and actor Nora Ríos (“Caliphate,” “Heartbeats”). 

A physique is seen in floating inertly within the ship’s lab’s tank; most characters are caught looking out, fearful, trying, pointing or reacting to somebody or one thing off-screen; or seemingly experiencing a dawning realisation; and eventually in violent battle.

“Welcome to the loony bin,” Maggie says sardonically, caught in excessive close-up, with a slight air of a grasp of ceremonies, although “The Head” is infamous for creating pink herrings – equivalent to practically all of Season 1.

The trailer concludes with Season 2’s logline: “In the course of the ocean, there’s nowhere to run.”

Tellem serves as govt producer on Season 2 along with Laura Fernández Espeso, Javier Méndez,  Bernat Elias and Mariano Baselga, who additionally options as head author of a writers’ room which included  Catalan playwright Jordi Galcerán (“The Technique,” “Burundanga,” “Carnival” and “El Crédito”), Issac Sastre, one of many screenwriters on the earlier season, and Brazil’s Cauê Laratta.