YouTube’s original space thriller Origin is set to premiere with Harry Potter alums Tom Felton and Natalia Tena starring as the leads.
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.
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 by Paul W.S. Anderson. It comes from the producers of The Crown and Outlander and will run for 10 episodes.
Origin premieres November 14th on YouTube Premium. Find out more about YouTube Premium subscriptions here and you can also get a free one month trial.
