Watch Cara Delevingne and Orlando Bloom in Carnival Row’s first teaser

A mysterious teaser for Amazon’s new show Carnival Row has dropped and it’s got us very excited for a supernatural showdown.

With Game of Thrones becoming a faint memory, audiences are desperate for a new fantasy series to get their teeth into. Fortunately for us, Amazon just dropped a teaser for new show Carnival Row, which just might plug that historical fiction/fantasy gap, for a short while anyway. While the teaser doesn’t exactly give much away, there are a few juicy details we’ve manage to piece together from the 30 second long clip.

Starring Orlando Bloom as human detective Rycroft Philostrate and Cara Delevingne as a refugee faerie Vignette Stonemoss, the teaser for Carnival Row shows the two of them in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythical creatures.

The show’s official synopsis describes a rift between humans and the mystical creatures – “feared by humans, they are forbidden to live, love, or fly with freedom” – but also indicates that the show may have a darker investigative feel to it as Philostrate and Stonemoss come together in the wake of a string of murders.

Though it may sound like it has the trappings of David Ayer’s Bright (fantasy creatures living in divided society), Carnival Row will initially play out over eight episodes, so here’s hoping there will be more time for storylines to play out and characters to be properly developed.

This will mark Bloom’s first TV appearance (with the exception an early career slot in British hospital soap Casualty, which is definitely worth checking out) but also Delevingne’s first foray into television rather than film. Delevingne is no stranger to playing a non-human part though – her work as the Enchantress in Suicide Squad might inform her role as faerie Stonemoss.

The series will also star Game of Thrones‘  Indira Varma, David Gyasi (Interstellar) and Karla Crome (Under the Dome). It’s written and created by Travis Beacham, who is most known for writing Sci-Fi monster romp Pacific Rim, and has been sitting on the concept for Carnival Row since his film school days. Co-creator Rene Echevarria has worked to bring Terra Nova, Star Trek: The Next Generation and The 4400 to our screens and so, between them, the series already seems like it’s in great hands.

Watch Carnival Row‘s official teaser below:

Carnival Row will be released on Amazon Prime on 30th August 2019. Watch the full teaser below.