The Amazon Prime Video series will be getting a second season, the streaming series announced in a statement released today. The conspiracy thriller's first season premiered February 21.

　　The show was created by David Weil (The Twilight Zone), who also serves as executive producer and co-showrunner along with Nikki Toscano (24: Legacy). Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us) is also an executive producer on the series. Al Pacino stars as Meyer Offerman, a Polish-Jewish philanthropist and Holocaust survivor who recruits and leads the hunters.

　　Hunters, which is loosely inspired by a number of real Nazi hunters who have existed through the decades, followed a diverse band of fictional Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City. In the Amazon series, the titular hunters have discovered that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are still surviving, thriving, and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the United States.

　　"I am beyond grateful to Jen and the Amazon family for their continued extraordinary support of Hunters." said Weil. "Alongside our magnificent cast, incredible crew, and brilliant writers and producers, I am more eager than ever to share the next chapter of the Hunters saga with the world."

　　No release date for the second season has yet been announced. In addition to Pacino, the first season also starred Logan Lerman and and Jerrika Hinton. The series also stars Josh Radnor, Kate Mulvany, Tiffany Boone, Greg Austin, Louis Ozawa, Carol Kane, Saul Rubinek, Dylan Baker and Lena Olin.

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