EXCLUSIVE: Michael Uppendahl (The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, The Beauty) has been set to direct the pilot episode of Prime Video‘s Bishop, a thriller drama from co-creators Little Marvin and Tony Saltzman. Uppendahl will also executive produce.

Bishop follows homicide detective Bishop Graves (Joel Kinnaman) – brilliant, battle-scarred – will put all of his skills to the test in the hunt for an elusive killer targeting San Francisco’s moneyed class. As this increasingly audacious killer develops a devoted following among the city’s powerless, Bishop becomes convinced these murders connect back to SF’s most powerful man, his own father, Lincoln Graves (John Malkovich).

In addition to Kinnaman and Malkovich, the series also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh as Jillian Graves, Lincoln Graves’ sister, and aunt to Bishop Graves; Jordana Brewster as Kat Claiborne, a seasoned inspector at the San Francisco Police Department; Harry Treadaway as Wyatt; and Xavier Samuel as Anthony ‘Ant’ Graves, Bishop Graves younger brother. Ulrich Thomsen, Erik Svedberg-Zelman, and Jennifer Beals will also appear in recurring roles. Guest stars include John Larroquette and Rob Yang.

Little Marvin serves as the showrunner of Bishop, which he and Saltzman executive produce alongside Roy Lee and Vertigo’s Miri Yoon. The project stems from Little Marvin’s overall deal at Amazon MGM Studios. Felicia Fasano is the casting director.

Uppendahl is just coming off directing several episodes and serving as executive producer of FX’s Ryan Murphy series The Beauty, and the upcoming adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards, also for the network. His prior credits include pilots for Hulu’s The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, Candy, and Castle Rock, as well as Netflix’s The Decameron and AMC’s Mayfair Witches. Uppendahl is repped by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.