Jordan Peele’s “Twisted-Ass Science Fiction” Anthology ‘Weird City’ Coming To YouTube Premium
By Ben Pearson/July 1, 2018 1:00 pm EST
Sanders is a hilarious comedian, writer, and performer in his own right. (I’ve seen him at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater multiple times.) To get a taste of how Peele and Sanders work together, here are all of those sketches Peele mentioned in that statement:
“Writer/creator Charlie Sanders and I collaborated on some Key & Peele sketches that took on everything from the ‘Black Republicans’ to ‘Continental Breakfasts’ to ‘Family Matters.’ Now, with YouTube we present a series of comedy driven twisted-ass science fiction stories that take place in a world close to ours but just a little bit off.”
Jose Molina (The Tick) will serve as Weird City’s showrunner, and Adam Bernstein is set to direct the first two episodes. Bernstein has been directing TV since the 1990s, helming shows like 30 Rock, Breaking Bad, Scrubs, Orange is the New Black, and Fargo. Weird City will join YouTube Premium’s (formerly known as YouTube Red) growing roster of genre projects, which currently includes Doug Liman’s Impulse and a Robert Downey Jr.-hosted show about artificial intelligence.
Meanwhile, Peele has Black Klansman, Us, and maybe Get Out 2 coming on the feature film front. His additional TV projects include Lovecraft Country with J.J. Abrams, a Nazi-hunting drama called The Hunt, and a reboot of The Twilight Zone.
Weird City will debut on YouTube Premium sometime in 2019.
