Gallery: Firebite

First images have been released of upcoming indigenous vampire drama, Firebite, which has been filming in South Australia.

The eight-episode series, set to premiere in the USA on AMC, stars Yael Stone (Orange is the New Black), Rob Collins (Cleverman, Extraction), Callan Mulvey (Avengers: End Game, Rush) and Shantae Barnes-Cowan.

An AMC Studios original production with See-Saw Films, Firebite follows 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 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 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 that surround the town until the present day, the colony’s numbers and hunger is 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?

An Australian broadcaster is yet to be confirmed for the series.

Update: AMC+ launches in Australia on Apple TV app and for Prime members via Prime Video Channels at $8.99 (with Acorn TV and Shudder at no additional cost).