The visual spectacle aims to be a think piece on the role of faith in civilization.
Today marks the release of the new sci-fi series Raised by Wolves, produced and initially directed by Ridley Scott, who also directed Alien and The Martian.
Here’s a quick recap of what we know about the series so far: it principally stars a female, possibly part-biological android named Mother, who has left behind some catastrophe on humanity’s home planet to travel to a new one. There, she raises a group of children who will be the seed for a new human civilization that avoids the mistakes that purportedly destroyed civilization as we know it. But in the course of raising them, it becomes clear that the young humans are susceptible to the same tendencies that Mother claims were humanity’s undoing.
The first two episodes will be directed by Ridley Scott, who has a history of producing grandiose, high-concept, philosophical sci-fi (see: Prometheus and Alien Covenant) as well as treatises on religious tribalism (like in Kingdom of Heaven).
In this trailer, we learn that Mother is joined by another android named Father but that they appear to disagree on some key things. Additionally, it fleshes out the arrival of the series’ apparent villain (we’ll see if he really is, in the end), played by Travis Fimmel of Vikings and Warcraft fame.
Fimmel arrives with a group of human soldiers dressed in crusader-like spacesuits, and they have come to reclaim the children for the rest of humanity.
Violent conflict, philosophical musings, and character development surely follow, as the trailer suggests. Raised by Wolves is set to premiere on HBO Max, September 3.
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