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Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen author and showrunner Gillian Flynn was adapting Dennis Kelly’s U.K.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticIn the absence of trustworthy institutions and the constant simmering resentment pulsing through politics and culture alike, the concept of some vast conspiracy tying all the disparate threads together must be, in its own twisted way, a comfort.

Jessica Rhoades Guest ColumnistLater this month, Amazon Prime will air Gillian Flynn’s “Utopia,” a show that I’m an executive producer of and which features a panic-inducing viral outbreak.

Sure, Amazon’s new series “Utopia” is about comic book nerds that find out their beloved funny books are actually predictors of future world-ending problems, but the streaming service didn’t tell us it would be this bloody. But holy shit, within the opening seconds of the new NSFW trailer for the series, you see just how bloody “Utopia” actually is.

Comic book fans have too much power and influence on pop culture’s ebbs and flows, so watching “Utopia,” a show where a granular-level obsession with comics turns into jaw-dropping dismay, feels practically cathartic. Imagine that your favorite comic book is actually a colorful document of someone’s real, if wholly unbelievable, life, and every adventure and every panel is actually a vibrant snapshot of actual violence.

We can all agree that the stories in 99% of comic books are fiction. Superman doesn’t exist.

above, Tuesday, when it was also revealed the eight-part conspiracy thriller series from “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn will premiere Sept. 25.Also Read: 17 New Summer TV Shows Ranked by Premiere Viewers, From 'Tough as Nails' to 'United We Fall' (Photos)“Utopia” follows “a group of comic fans who meet online and bond over their obsession of a seemingly fictional comic called, ‘Utopia,'” per Amazon.

Brandon Choe Photo EditorShowrunner Gillian Flynn revealed in today’s virtual TCA session that she is taking her version of Amazon’s Utopia in a slightly different direction from the British original. The David Kelly-written counterpart received many complaints of brutality and adult content.

Utopia, a darkly comic conspiracy thriller series from executive producer Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects), is coming to Amazon Prime Video this fall, and Flynn and the show's stars John Cusack, Sasha Lane, Ashleigh LaThrop, Desmin Borges, and Dan Byrd gathered for a digital panel to preview the unintentionally timely show, which deals with a devastating new virus spreading across America. Utopia, an adaptation of a 2013 British series of the same name, centers on a group of comic book

Also Read: 'Utopia' Isn't Real (Except It Definitely Is) in First Teaser for Gillian Flynn's Amazon Thriller Series (Video)In addition to Cusack, the series also stars Dan Byrd, Ashleigh LaThrop, Jessica Rothe, Desmin Borges, Javon “Wanna” Walton, Rainn Wilson, Farrah Mackenzie, Christopher Denham and Cory Michael Smith.“I don’t think there’s anything not weird about 2020 thus far, regardless of if you work on a show that had some sort of pathway to our pandemic or not,” said Borges.

Comic-Con@Home panel, setting the table for the twisted dramatics that await audiences when the series drops this fall. The eight-episode series hails from author , who is an executive producer.Based on the U.K.

Gillian Flynn's highly anticipated Utopia at virtual SDCC and it's exactly as head-turning as you'd expect from the writer behind Gone Girl and Sharp Objects. The series, adapted from a British series of the same name, follows a cohort of diehard fans who met online while discussing their favorite comic Utopia. Over time though, they realize the catastrophic events predicted in comics are slowly coming true in real life.

It’s been a minute since we heard from “Gone Girl” writer Gillian Flynn, though that’s maybe not entirely accurate. She also wrote Steve McQueen’s “Widows,” but that film failed to make a splash in the same way that David Fincher’s movie did.

The star-studded virtual panels keep on coming.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed prolific TV producer Jessica Rhoades (Sharp Objects) and her company Pacesetter Productions in all areas.Rhoades is currently an executive producer on Gillian Flynn’s upcoming Amazon Studios straight-to-series drama Utopia, starring Sasha Lane, John Cusack, and Rainn Wilson, which is expected to premiere this fall.