Amazon bets big on sci-fi with 3 new shows, including Snow Crash

Finally, Amazon is also planning to produce a show based on the comic book Lazarus, by writer Greg Rucka, which centers around a woman named Forever Carlyle, a sort of super-soldier belonging to one of the ultra-wealthy ruling families in a world with huge wealth disparity. She, of course, must discover the truth of her existence and figure out where her loyalties really lie.

Amazon recently canned a couple of its period dramas, The Last Tycoon and Z: The Beginning of Everything. Combined with these announcements, that signals a hard push for big event series as the service attempts to mimic the success of stuff like Game of Thrones, Westworld, and Marvel’s Netflix shows.

None of these shows have hard release dates, but Amazon Studios head Roy Price said in a letter to Amazon employees that he he’s “feeling bullish” about what’s coming the next couple years, so they’re not too far off. And let’s not overlook the irony of Amazon, one of the biggest and fastest-growing companies in the world, making shows about futures ruled by mega-corporations. Just bask in it.

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