Apple has released the official trailer for its alien invading sci-fi drama series, ‘Invasion.’
The new trailer takes the viewers all around the world as we see common people like ourselves preparing for the incoming doom.
We see soldiers, officers, scientists, parents and kids, with the president of the United States declaring, “What is being visited upon our Earth… is not of our Earth.”
Set across multiple continents, the series follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world.
From creators Simon Kinberg and David Weil, Season 1 of Invasion will consist of 10 episodes.
Invasion takes inspiration from Alejandro Iñárritu’s film Babel and H.G. Wells‘ book War of the Worlds.
Kinberg spoke to IGN about how the origins of Invasion came to be,
Well, initially I had a thought of doing a very modern global Babel, like the movie Babel meets War of the Worlds. And I met [co-creator David Weil], because I wanted a partner in creating and writing it, and we really connected. And the more we talked about it, the further and further it got away from anything resembling War of the Worlds other than it being an alien invasion. And so it became its own original thing.
Simon Kinberg
Kinberg also wanted to show what reality would feel like if the world was invaded,
I think there are a lot of nations, unfortunately, around the world that know what that feels like, but there’s a whole lot of nations that don’t, and America is one of them.
Simon Kinberg
For Kinberg, Invasion is about aliens and alienation, literally as well as metaphorically,
…In the case of Invasion, it’s really about two things for me, metaphorically. One is the fact that we’re all aliens, that there is a sense of alienation that I think all people carry with them in some form, whether they’re alienated from their families, alienated from their communities, alienated from their jobs, there is a sense of disconnect. And I think I was really trying to find storylines in our show that would explore that feeling of alienation and really sort of explode it under the intensity of the magnifying glass of an actual alien invasion.
Simon Kinberg
After halting production in March 2020, set to film in New York, Manchester, Morocco, and Japan, production restarted in August 2020.
The series stars Shamier Anderson, Golshifteh Farahani, Sam Neill, Firas Nassar, and Shioli Kutsuna, among others.
Invasion will premiere its first three episodes on Apple TV+ on October 22, 2021, with new episodes weekly, every Friday.
About Invasion
Invasion is an upcoming American science fiction television series created by Simon Kinberg and David Weil for Apple TV+.
The cast includes Sam Neill, Shamier Anderson, Golshifteh Farahani, Firas Nassar, Billy Barratt, Shioli Kutsuna among others.
A classic alien invasion story with a twist, the series takes place amidst the arrival of unknown and hostile visitors, which kicks off a fight for survival seen through the eyes of different people from around the world.
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