AMC+ Releases First-Look Images From New Original Vampire Fantasy Series ‘Firebite’

Earlier this year, AMC Studios greenlit the Indigenous Australian vampire fantasy series “Firebite.” On Thursday, AMC+ released a handful of first-look images, giving us our first glimpse into the series, which will premiere on the streaming platform on December 16.

The eight-episode series, rolling out with new episodes every Thursday, stars Yael Stone (“Orange is the New Black”), Rob Collins (“Cleverman,” “Extraction”), Callan Mulvey (“Avengers: End Game”), and Indigenous Australian star Shantae Barnes-Cowan. An AMC Studios original production with See-Saw Films, “Firebite” takes a new spin on the vampire genre, following two Indigenous Australian hunters, Tyson (Collins) and Shanika (Barnes-Cowan), on their quest to battle the last colony of vampires in the middle of the South Australian desert.

Created, directed, and written by Australia’s most celebrated Indigenous auteur voice, Warwick Thornton (“Samson and Delilah,” “Sweet Country”) alongside Brendan Fletcher (“Mad Bastards”), with Tony Krawitz (“The Tall Man,” “Dead Europe”) joining as director, “Firebite” is set in a remote desert mining town, a hive for the last vampire stronghold shipped from Britain to Australia in 1788 by the colonial superpower to eradicate the Indigenous populations. Sheltering from the sun in the underground mines and tunnels surrounding the town until the present day, the colony’s numbers and hunger are growing. War is coming. Tyson and Shanika stand vanguard to the war. But what hope does an expertly reckless man full of bravado and a 17-year-old orphan possibly have to defeat these vicious blood-thirsty parasites when legions of warriors before them have failed?

Check out the first-loom images below:

“Firebite” is set to premiere Thursday, December 16, on AMC+.