Amazon has released its next batch of pilots up for consideration on Amazon Instant Video today, including three comedies from Whit Stillman, Jay Chandrasekhar, and Steven Soderberg. Here’s a description of each show:
The Cosmopolitans: Written, directed, and produced by Whit Stillman, The Cosmopolitans follows “a group of young American expatriates in Paris searching for love and friendship in a foreign city.†The pilot stars Adam Brody, Chloë Sevigny, Carrie MacLemore, Dree Hemingway, Freddy Åsblom, Shaun Evans, and Adriano Giannini.
Really: Written, directed, and starring Broken Lizard’s Jay Chandrasekhar, Really follows a group of thirtysomething friends in Chicago led by Chandrasekhar as a “happily, messily married neurologist Jed†and Sarah Chalke as “lawyer/mom Lori.†Cast also includes Selma Blair, Luka Jones, Travis Schuldt, Lindsay Sloane, Hayes Macarthur, and Collette Wolfe.
Red Oaks: Directed by Pineapple Express and Eastbound and Down’s David Gordon Green and produced by Steven Soderbergh, Red Oaks is an ‘80s-set coming-of-age comedy starring Craig Roberts as a college student who lands a summer job as an assistant tennis pro at a suburban New Jersey country club. Paul Reiser, Richard Kind, Jennifer Grey, and Oliver Cooper also star.
Click through to watch a sizzle reel of the new pilots up for consideration, then head over to Amazon to watch each pilot here, here, and here.