Trailer for Ridley Scott's Raised by Wolves is giving us strong Alien vibes - Ars Technica

Androids struggle to raise human children on a mysterious planet in the first trailer for Raised by Wolves, a new sci-fi series coming to HBO Max, courtesy of none other than Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien, etc., etc.). Created by Aaron Guzikowski, who also penned the script for the 2013 thriller Prisoners, the ten-episode series was initially a straight-to-series order for TNT, but moved to HBO Max last October?

“I’m always searching for new frontiers in the sci-fi genre and have found a true original in Raised by Wolves— a wholly distinct and imaginative world, full of characters struggling with existential questions," Scott told Deadline Hollywood in 2018 about what drew him to the project.

The tagline for the series gives little away: "Mother was programmed to protect everyone after Earth had been destroyed.

When the big bad wolf shows up, she is the one we must trust." But the basic premise revealed during development is that the story involves two androids serving as Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim) figures on a strange virgin planet.

They are programmed to raise human children to rebuild the population.

"Gather round, children," we hear Mother say.

And now we start again." Then Mother launches into a creepy retelling of the Three Little Pigs as images flash by in rapid succession, becoming increasingly strange and violent.

All those images of a blood-spattered Mother emitting banshee wails with enough acoustic energy to make heads explode suggests otherwise.

And what's Mother doing crouched and howling by a giant pit.

It's Ridley Scott, so we'll definitely be watching.