SDCC 2018 - SDCC 2018 : We were at the Mr Mercedes Season 2 press junket

By Mulder, San Diego, Hilton Bayfront, Aqua Salon EF, 19 july 2018

Season two of AT&T AUDIENCE Network’s “Mr. Mercedes” will premiere on Wednesday, August 22nd at 10pm ET/PT. The 10 episods second season will be based on the three novels in the Bill Hodges trilogy, Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch.

Written by television veterans David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies, Ally McBeal) and Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, The Drop, Live by Night) and directed by Jack Bender (Game of Thrones, Lost, Under the Dome), the second season will be based on Stephen King’s best-selling Bill Hodges Trilogy, which includes, “Mr. Mercedes,” “Finders Keepers” and “End of Watch.” King, Kelley, Bender, Lehane, Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill Entertainment, and Tom Lesinski and Jenna Santoianni of Sonar Entertainment will serve as executive producers.

The second season takes place a year after Brady Hartsfield’s thwarted attempt to perpetrate a second mass murder in the community of Bridgton, Ohio. Since the incident, Hartsfield has been hospitalized in a vegetative state. Retired Detective Bill Hodges has done his best to move on from his Brady obsession, teaming up with Holly Gibney to open Finders Keepers, a private investigative agency. But when unexplainable occurrences begin to affect hospital staff members attending to Brady, Hodges is haunted by the feeling that Brady is somehow responsible.

The original cast, which includes Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter) as Detective Bill Hodges, Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful) as Brady Hartsfield, Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight) as Jerome Robinson, Scott Lawrence (Avatar) as Detective Peter Dixon, Breeda Wool (Unreal) as Lou Linklatter, Justine Lupe (Francis Ha) as Holly Gibney, Nancy Travis (How I Met Your Mother) as Donna Hodges, and Holland Taylor (The Truman Show) as Ida Silver, is joined by Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire) as Brady Hartsfield’s doctor Dr. Felix Babineau, Tessa Ferrer (Grey’s Anatomy) as Dr. Babineau’s wife Cora Babineau, and Maximiliano Hernandez (Sicario) as Assistant DA Antonio Montez for season 2.

Season 1 of Mr. Mercedes is available on AT&T AUDIENCE Network which can be found on DIRECTV Ch. 239 and AT&T U-verse Ch. 1114 and via streaming services on DIRECTV NOW, DIRECTV, and AT&T U-verse Apps.

During the San Diego comic-con, we were present to the press room for some roundtables.

Here are our photos on our Flickr page

Here are our videos :

Justine Lupe

Jack Huston

Breeda Wool

Jack Bender

Maximiliano Hernández

Synopsis:
Retired detective Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved case of "Mr. Mercedes," who claimed sixteen lives when he drove a stolen Mercedes through a line of job-seekers at a local job fair. Meanwhile, brilliant young psychopath Brady Hartsfield, the real Mr. Mercedes, reemerges to focus his attention on Hodges. What begins as an online cat-and-mouse game between the two soon has deadly real-life consequences as an increasingly desperate Hartsfield becomes bent on leaving his mark on the world.

Mr. Mercedes
Based on Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Developed by David E. Kelley
Starring Brendan Gleeson, Harry Treadaway, Kelly Lynch, Jharrel Jerome, Scott Lawrence, Robert Stanton, Breeda Wool, Justine Lupe, Mary-Louise Parker, Holland Taylor
Opening theme : "It's Not Too Late" by T Bone Burnett
Executive producers : Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Chris Long, Shane Elrod, Tom Lesinski, Jenna Santoianni, Stephen King, Jack Bender, David E. Kelley
Producers : Kate Regan, Ellen Stafford, Brian Walsh
Production companies : David E. Kelley Productions, Nomadicfilm, Temple Hill Productions, Sonar Entertainment
Original network : Audience

Photos and videos: Boris Colletier (Mulderville)
(Source : press release)