AL Pacino plays a tough-as-nails Nazi hunter in a new Amazon series, which has just unveiled its first-look teaser.
Hunters, which debuts on the streaming service in 2020, sees the Oscar winner in his first television role.
The 79 year-old legend sports a beard, long hair and glasses in the initial promo for the 10-part drama, which is produced by Oscar winning Get Out writer/ director Jordan Peele.
The Irishman star plays Meyer Offerman in the show, which is set in 1977 New York and follows a “rag-tag team of Nazi Hunters on their quest for righteous revenge.”
When the Hunters discover that there are undercover Nazis living among them in the US and plotting to create a Fourth Reich on American soil, the gang “set out to thwart their genocidal plans”.
The action-packed thirty second tease shows Pacino’s character standing in front of a board covered in photographs before drawing a red ‘x’ through a picture of a uniformed Nazi.
There are also scenes of exploding car and an unidentified woman handcuffed to a chair.
“This is not murder,” Al’s character says in a voiceover that plays over the clip. “This is Mitzvah.”
Mitzvah is a Jewish term meaning a ‘good deed done from religious duty’.
Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke described the series, which was originally called The Hunt, as “edge-of-your-seat entertainment that is not only culturally relevant but deliciously original.”
And Jordan Peele told Deadline: “It’s cathartic. It’s noir. It’s frighteningly relevant. It’s exactly what I want to see on television. I am thrilled to be working with Amazon in bringing this incredible vision to the world.”
