The Killing star Joel Kinnaman is back on the trail of another murderer. The Swedish actor is headed to Prime Video to star in Bishop, a new crime thriller series. The production has been given a straight-to-series order by the entertainment conglomerate. According to reports, Kinnaman will star as Bishop Graves, a San Francisco homicide detective who finds himself tracking a killer who’s targeting the city’s wealthy elite. Like a deadly Robin Hood, the killer soon develops a following among the city’s underprivileged, complicating Graves’ investigation. Further clouding matters is the involvement of the city’s most feared power broker, Lincoln Graves…who also happens to be Bishop’s father.

The role of Lincoln has not yet been cast. The series will be showrun by Little Marvin (Them); he will also executive produce with Tony Salzman (Dexter: Resurrection), and Vertigo‘s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon, who recently produced the horror hit Weapons. Amazon MGM executive Nick Pepper describes the series as “a truly electric crime drama.”

What Has Joel Kinnaman Appeared in Lately?

Kinnaman has starred on Apple TV+‘s For All Mankind for the past four seasons as astronaut Ed Bishop; the series is set in an alternate 20th century in which the Soviet Union set foot on the Moon before the United States. He also recently made a surprise appearance on the DC Comics series Peacemaker: although his DC character, Rick Flag Jr., was killed off in The Suicide Squad, he appeared in a flashback sequence. He’s slated to appear in a key role in Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole, a Netflix adaptation of the popular series of Norwegian mystery novels, as well as Imperfect Women, a new Apple TV+ series starring Elisabeth Moss and Kerry Washington. On the big screen, he played a detective with hearing loss protecting a deaf witness in the thriller The Silent Hour. Coming up, he’s signed to star in The Beast, a Presidential action thriller with Samuel L. Jackson, and Ice Fall, a thriller with Emma Jade Myers.

It is unclear if Kinnaman will be able to star on both Bishop and For All Mankind, the science fiction series he currently headlines on Apple TV+. However, the fate of Ed Bishop is up in the air after a time jump in For All Mankind‘s fourth-season finale, and it is unclear if he will return, which may resolve the scheduling problem on its own.

Bishop is in development at Prime Video.

via Collider