Academy award winning British filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott(director of Alien, Blade Runner, and The Martian and executive producer of The Man in the High Castle) is directing and executive producer of a new science fiction show for HBO Max.
Watch the trailer here. Please turn down the SCIFI.radio stream whilst watching the trailer, so you can hear it properly.
According to our distinguished colleagues at Deadline: “Raised By Wolves, from writer-showrunner Aaron Guzikowski, Scott Free, Turner’s Studio T and Madhouse Entertainment, centers on two androids — Father and Mother — tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task.”
As you can see in this trailer, android Mother (played by Amanda Collin, Oraklet in Theo & Den Magiske Talismen) uses the traditional method of teaching lessons through storytelling. One wonders if Mother and Father will read The Adventures of Pinocchio to teach their children not to tell fibs.
In addition to Collin as Mother, Raised by Wolves will feature Jordan Loughran (Tip in Emerald City) as Tempest, Ethan Hazzard (Isaac in the horror movie The Dare), and Abubakar Salim (the voice of Bayak in the Assassin’s Creed videogames) as Father. Australian actor/model Travis Fimmel (Ragnar Lothbrok in The History Channel’s Vikings) will co-star as Marcus.
Sir Ridley Scott was knighted in 2003, and inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007. He’s been nominated for an Oscar for Best Director three times (for Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down) and he won the Oscar for Best Picture for The Martian, which he also directed.
Raised by Wolves is scheduled to premiere on HBO Max on Thursday, September 3, 2020.
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Susan Macdonald is the author of the children’s book “R is for Renaissance Faire”, as well as 26 short stories, mostly fantasy in “Alternative Truths”, “Swords and Sorceress #30”, Swords &Sorceries Vols. 1, 2, & 5, “Cat Tails” “Under Western Stars”, and “Knee-High Drummond and the Durango Kid”. Her articles have appeared on SCIFI.radio’s web site, in The Inquisitr, and in The Millington Star. She enjoys Renaissance Faires (see book above), science fiction conventions, Highland Games, and Native American pow-wows.
