Dan Stevens lands lead role in 'The Terror: Devil in Silver'

July 18 (UPI) -- Dan Stevens has landed the lead role in The Terror Season 3, officially titled The Terror: Devil in Silver .

AMC announced Thursday that Stevens, an actor known for playing Matthew Crawley in the Downton Abbey franchise, will star in the upcoming season, which premieres on AMC and AMC+ in 2025.

Deadline said Stevens will also serve as an executive producer.

Hello, Dan Stevens! Welcome to #TheTerror : Devil in Silver cast.

Stevens will star in the third installment of the anthology series, coming to AMC and AMC+ in 2025. pic.twitter.com/zRbPJKYc1K — AMC TV (@AMC_TV) July 18, 2024

Devil in Silver is based on the novel by author Victor LaValle, who co-wrote and executive produces the season with Chris Cantwell ( Halt and Catch Fire ). Ridley Scott is also an executive producer.

The season follows Pepper (Stevens), a working-class moving man who finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital. There, Pepper must contend with patients, doctors, and "perhaps even the very Devil himself."

"As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde's walls -- but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him," an official synopsis reads.

The Terror is a supernatural horror anthology series. Season 1 was based on the Dan Simmons novel of the same name, while Season 2, The Terror: Infamy , is inspired by the real-life Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.