'Undone': Release date, plot, cast, trailer and everything you need to know about Amazon Prime's rotoscoping animation

'Undone', a genre-bending half-hour show, is scheduled to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on September 13, 2019
PUBLISHED AUG 5, 2019

Amazon Prime Video is all set to launch its rotoscope animation series titled 'Undone' on September 30. The series is the first episodic television project to use rotoscoping animation. The most popular product of the rotoscoping approach is the 2006 project 'A Scanner Darkly', which is based on the writings of Philip K Dick. 

The half-hour series is a genre-bending animated series that explores the elastic nature of reality through Rosa Salazar's Alma.  

Release date

'Undone' is scheduled to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on September 13, 2019.

Plot

'Undone' explores "the elastic nature of reality through its central character, Alma. After getting into a near-fatal car accident, Alma discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses this ability to find out the truth about her father’s death". 

Cast

Rosa Salazar as Alma

Rosa Salazar attends the premiere of 20th Century Fox's 'Alita: Battle Angel' at Westwood Regency Theater on February 05, 2019 in Los Angeles, California (Getty Images)

The American actress is known for her role on the NBC series 'Parenthood' and 'American Horror Story: Murder House'. Salazar also played the titular role in 'Alita: Batke Angel'. She is known for making appearances in 'The Divergent Series: Insurgent', 'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials', 'Maze Runner: The Death Cure' and 'The Kindergarten Teacher' and 'Bird Box'. 

Bob Odenkirk as Jacob

Actor-producer Bob Odenkirk attends the 19th Annual AFI Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 4, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

Odenkirk is known for his role as the smooth-talking lawyer Saul Goodman /Jimmy McGill on the crime drama series 'Breaking Bad' and the spin-off show 'Better Call Saul'. He is also known for his work on the HBO sketch comedy series 'Mr. Show with Bob and David'.  

The series will also include other voice actors such as Angelique Cabral, Constance Marie, Siddharth Dhananjay, Daveed Diggs, John Corbett, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Sheila Vand and Tyler Posey. 

Creators

The series is created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg (of 'BoJack Horseman' fame) and Kate Purdy, they also serve as executive producers of the show alongside Noel Bright, Steven A. Cohen and Tommy Pallotta. 

Trailers

You can watch the mind-boggling trailer for the series here:



 

'Undone' follows 28-year-old Alma Winograd-Diaz (played by Rosa Salazar) who lives a mundane life one day at a time in San Antonio in Texas and discovers that she has a new relationship with time after nearly dying in a car accident. After the accident, she begins to see persistent visions of her late-father. These images urge her to tap into a mysterious ability allowing her to travel through space and time with the sole intention of finding what exactly happened to her father.

Where to watch

'Undone' is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on September 13, 2019.

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