NETWORK HBO MAX
DAT E 2020↖ Amanda Collin,
Winta McGrath,
and Abubakar
Salim inside an
expandable shelter
on planet Kepler-
22b in the
22nd century
← Salim’s and
Collin’s androids
Father and MotherMithraic religion, including new
arrival Marcus, played by Travis
Fimmel. “Travis I was fascinated by
when I watched, frankly, a lot of the
Vikings,” says Scott. “Marcus seems
to be a leader, part of the new pio-
neers that have just landed, except
he has a much more complex story.”
Though Scott is famous for his
movies, he got his start directing
British TV shows back in the ’60s;
his production company’s credits
include acclaimed series The
Good Wife and The Terror. “It’s the
future,” he says of television. And
who is going to argue with Ridley
Scott about that? —CLARK COLLISDIRECTOR RIDLEY SCOTT HAS
depicted humanlike androids in
his Alien films, in the original Blade
Runner, and now on his new show
Raised by Wolves, whose initial
nine-episode season premieres on
HBO Max later this year. Does the
prolific auteur ever worry he him-
self might be a robot? “I think I am,
actually,” says Scott, who spoke to
EW from the France set of his next
movie, The Last Duel (with Adam
Driver, Ben Affleck, and Matt
Damon). “Because I’m busier now
than I’ve ever been in my life!”
Created by Aaron Guzikowski
(Prisoners) and set in the 22nd cen-
tury, Wolves stars Amanda Collin
and Abubakar Salim as Mother and
Father, two androids tasked with
rearing human children on the
planet Kepler-22b after Earth has
been turned into a wasteland by a
religious war. “They set up camp
and farm and start at the beginning
from scratch,” says Scott, 82, who
directed the show’s feature-length
premiere. “A little bit like Swiss
Family Robinson.”
Mother and Father raise their
charges as atheists, which puts them
into conflict with members of theAMANDA COLLIN & ABUBAKAR SALIMRaised by WolvesFIRST TAKECHARLIE HEATONSOULMATESIS THERE AN IDEAL, PERFECT
soul mate? That’s the question
Stranger Things star Charlie
Heaton was left with after working
on AMC’s first-ever episodic
anthology series.
Created by Brett Goldstein
(SuperBob) and William Bridges
(Stranger Things), Soulmates is
set 15 years in the future when
scientists have developed a test
that connects people to their
soul mate. “The beauty of it being
an anthology show meant that we
could tell an entirely different
relationship story every week
from many different angles and
even genres,” says Bridges.
One of those angles is loss,
which is addressed in the episode
“Break On Through”: Heaton plays
Kurt, a good-hearted man who
takes the test only to discover
that his soul mate has died. Heart-
broken, Kurt joins a religious cult
to cope. “There’s a lot of pain in
this character,” Heaton says. “He’s
grieving, and he’s questioning
whether he deserves love
because this love has been taken
away. And is that for a reason?
Can you live without the person
you’re supposed to be with?”
Queries like that made the show
especially interesting for the
26-year-old actor. “That concept
is quite universal, looking for love,”
he says. “A lot of the things that we
do in life are to find connection.”
—CHANCELLOR AGARD→ Stranger Things’
Charlie Heaton
takes a spiritually
cleansing bath.
“It’s part of this
journey he’s taking
with the cult,”
says the actor.NETWORK AMC
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