Jensen Ackles goes full action star in first 'Countdown' trailer
"If I'm going out, I'm going out saving something." Mark Meachum is sounding a lot like Dean Winchester right now.
In the first trailer for Countdown, Prime Video's new series from One Chicago's Derek Haas, Jensen Ackles' Mark Meachum is seen joining a task force put together by Eric Dane's Nathan Blythe.
"You are the best or I would not have selected you," Blythe tells his team, which also includes Luke Finau (Uli Latukefu), Evan Shepherd (Violett Beane), Keyonte Bell (Elliot Knight), and Amber Oliveras (Jessica Camacho).
As the team talks about bombs going off in their faces and working to stop a weapon of mass destruction, it's revealed that whatever the task force is doing, they're trying to stop a "Chernobyl-level event" from occurring in Los Angeles.
The series' official description reads: "When an officer with the Department of Homeland Security is murdered in broad daylight, LAPD detective Mark Meachum, portrayed by Ackles, is recruited to a secret task force, alongside undercover agents from all branches of law enforcement, to investigate. But the hunt for the killer soon uncovers a plot far more sinister than anyone could have imagined, kicking off a race against time to save a city of millions."
As showrunner Haas previously told Entertainment Weekly, "Putting this disparate group together and then emphasizing different strengths is what makes the show. And watching as they come together as a team. I think that's what the viewers are going to find really interesting."Ackles, best known for playing Dean Winchester across 15 seasons of Supernatural, is no stranger to action, though even Dean would be impressed with some of the shots of him walking away from exploding vehicles or ... standing on top of moving ones.
As Ackles told EW, "I actually just did some ADR the other day for an action sequence. I was watching it and I was like, 'Oh, I'm getting my Tom Cruise on here. This is some full-on action stuff.'"
Watch all of the action unfold in the trailer above.
Countdown premieres Wednesday, June 25 on Prime Video with the first three episodes before switching to a weekly rollout.
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