This is not a drill: Joan and Roger (or at least the actors who played them) are reuniting with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner for a new Amazon series and our Sterling Cooper-loving hearts just may burst.
Mad Men concluded its seven-season run back in 2015. But between the 10th anniversary of the show’s pilot a few weeks ago and news that three of its major stars are reuniting for a new series, it’s like it never left (and it didn’t really, all seven seasons are available to stream on Netflix). Variety reports that John Slattery (Roger Sterling) and Christina Hendricks (Joan Holloway) are teaming up again with each other and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner for a new Amazon series, set to premiere next year.
The eight-part show—titled The Romanoffs and written, directed, and produced by Weiner—will tell eight different stories about contemporary characters who think they’re descendants of the former Russian imperial family (yep, sounds like the same Romanoffs the animated classic Anastasia was about back in 1997).
No details yet on what character Roger and Joa…, er, Slattery and Hendricks will be playing on the series (fingers crossed for a Hendricks as time-traveling Anastasia, though). They’ll be joining fellow cast members Jack Huston (Richard Harrow from Boardwalk Empire), Amanda Peet, and French actress Isabelle Huppert (nominated for an Oscar last year for her role in Elle).
It’ll be interesting to see Weiner working back on a show set in the modern era (even if this series does sound like it will have a historic slant) as his eye and style as a showrunner were so perfectly suited for a period drama. Seeing Slattery and Hendricks in jeans and t-shirts instead of pencil skirts and tailored suits will take some getting used to as well (at least for us diehard Mad Men fans). But if the characters all think they’re Russian royalty, maybe they’ll be in capes and ball gowns anyway.
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Either way, we’ll be tuning in. The series will debut on Amazon Prime sometime in 2018.