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Everything to Know About SYFY’s New Series Revival
SYFY’s upcoming horror series is set to spin an undead mystery across the creepily quiet Midwest.
Straight from the pages of the critically-acclaimed comics and into your TV nightmares, SYFY is calling forth Revival, a new live-action horror series that’s set to cast a dark supernatural pall over your surest assumptions about the safety and tranquility of quiet life in rural America.
Announced earlier this year as an all-new SYFY original series, Revival will be based on the Harvey Awards-nominated 2010s comic title of the same name from writer Tim Seeley and artist Mike Norton. Original publisher Image Comics describes Revival as a “beautiful 'farm noir' that puts a new twist on the zombie genre,” a huge comics clue to tip you off to the sinister themes to be found in the upcoming SYFY series, which hails from Blue Ice Pictures, the very same production outfit behind SurrealEstate.
What is Revival on SYFY about?
Part of the dark allure of Revival’s comics run is the compelling way it laces a steady thread of mystery into its horror-tinged supernatural story. Led by small-town cop Dana Cypress — a Wisconsin single mom who's mourning a recently-deceased sister of her own — Revival dares to raise the dead and then make them indistinguishable as they walk among the living: Even in their altered state, the “revived,” as the creators tease, “appear and act just like they once were.”
Here’s the official synopsis from Image Comics:
For one day in rural central Wisconsin, the dead came back to life. Now it's up to Officer Dana Cypress to deal with the media scrutiny, religious zealots, and government quarantine that has come with them. In a town where the living have to learn to deal with those who are supposed to be dead, Officer Cypress must solve a brutal murder, and everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect. A beautiful 'farm noir' that puts a new twist on the zombie genre.
Just as key to Revival’s central mystery is Dana’s dead sister Em, a lately-departed local who doesn’t stay dead for long. Was Em murdered? So it seems — and that’s a mystery in itself — but in order to solve Em’s criminal case, Dana will have to uncover the hidden links between her sister’s fate and the listless supernatural phenomenon that’s wakened the rest of the town’s dead from their not-so-eternal Midwestern slumber.
Revival launched in comics form in the summer of 2012, and created an almost-immediate buzz among TV and film studios seeking to adapt its story for the screen. The comic itself, along with creators Seeley, Norton, and cover artist Jenny Frison, earned oodles of recognition as Revival went on to score a trio of nominations for the Harvey Awards (which pay annual tribute to outstanding comics achievement).
The Revival cast: Who will star in SYFY’s new series?
The main cast of Revival includes: Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp) as Dana Cypress; Romy Weltman (Murdoch Mysteries) as Martha "Em" Cypress; David James Elliott (Mad Men) as Sheriff Wayne Cypress; Andy McQueen (Mrs. Davis) as CDC scientist Ibrahim Ramin; Steven Ogg (The Walking Dead) as Pastor Blaine Abel; and WWE wrestler turned actor CM Punk as a mysterious recurring character.
When will Revival debut on SYFY?
Just as with the series’ casting, creators have so far been morbidly mum on identifying precisely when Revival will make its spooky SYFY premiere. The series was announced in May of 2024 alongside a planned premiere slated for sometime in 2025, which means it likely won’t be long before the floodgates open wide on more casting, creative, and scheduling news. We'll keep you good and posted though!
