YouTube debuted the trailer for Origin, an original space thriller series, at San Diego Comic Con 2018 and it has some unexpected actors…
The new series is essentially a mash-up of Lost, Alien, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and somehow the series has nabbed Harry Potter alums Natalia Tena and Tom Felton. But anyway, in Origin, a chilling new original series, we meet a group of troubled passengers as they wake up on a damaged spaceship abandoned in deep space. Each having left behind a dark past in search of a fresh start on a newly colonised planet, they’re desperate to survive at all costs. But as their terrifying situation spirals into paranoia, they come to realise that the greatest threat to their dream of starting over – and indeed their lives – might actually be within their midst…
As for the structure of the series, around 60% of an episode will take place on the Origin, a ship built by the Siren corporation who transport colonists to a distant and habitable planet called Thea. While the other 40% will consist of a series of flashbacks to the colonists’ previous lives on Earth and explore as to why they left in order to take this perilous journey into the unknown.
After the panel at San Diego Comic-Con, attendees were treated to the first 12 minutes of the episode. During the extended sneak peek, fans received a glimpse and flashback of Sen Mitsuji as his character who is a Japanese gangster in a futuristic Tokyo alongside his estranged brother who is a different line of work. The flashback then shows how he caused his brother’s death, and perhaps that will lead to some issues for him in space, which there was also a brief glimpse of!
The series stars Tom Felton, Natalia Tena, Sen Mitsuji, Nora Arnezeder, Fraser James, Philipp Christopher, Nina Wadia, Madalyn Horcher, Siobahn Cullen, Adelayo Adedayo and Wil Coban. The series is created and written by Mika Watkins, and is directed byPaul W.S. Anderson. It comes from the producers of The Crown and Outlander and will run for 10 episodes.
The new series will be available on YouTube Premium (formally YouTube Red) later this year, so maybe save your dollars for a subscription if you think it’s worth it?
