The Man Who Fell to Earth Remake’s First Teaser Puts the Future in Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Hands

Showtime has launched the primary have a look at Star Trek’s Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet’s tackle the enduring Walter Tevis novel is right here, giving us a glimpse at Chiwetel Ejiofor’s arrival on Earth—and his alien battle to discover a option to match right into a altering human society.

The new sequence, first pitched for Hulu, and then CBS All Access (now Paramount+), and now as an alternative touchdown on Showtime, follows Ejiofor not because the novel’s—nor David Bowie’s character within the 1976 movie, directed by Nicolas Roeg—extra-terrestrial protagonist, Thomas Jerome Newton, however a being often called Faraday, who’s from the identical species however crucially not the primary member of mentioned species to reach on Earth. Or fall, maybe.

The teaser has a couple of hints of the present’s strategy to trippy, celestially-tinged views in flashes and ominous climate occasions, however largely focuses on Faraday’s first encounters with Harris’ character, an as-yet-unnamed human society, as the 2 grapple with the prospect of creating first contact with an alien species. Although we nonetheless don’t know a lot about what plans Kurtzman and Lumet—who’re at present each working collectively on the Star Trek: Discovery spinoff sequence Strange New Worlds, specializing in pre-Kirk Enterprise captain Chris Pike—have for the present, and following significantly within the footsteps of Roeg’s adaptation, the duo just lately advised Entertainment Weekly that the brand new sequence will development much less to the melancholic tone of the ebook and the movie.

“[The book and film are] about this extraordinary loneliness, and how human loneliness can ultimately destroy you. I loved that feeling in the work that had been made, [but] it was not the story that I wanted to tell, and it was not the story that Jenny wanted to tell,” Kurtzman said to EW. “We were interested in integrating that loneliness, but I think we wanted to tell a story that’s ultimately much more uplifting.”

I imagine in human beings, and I wished to put in writing about human beings pulling it out, stepping up, and making it by means of. Because we’re fairly cool species,” Lumet added. “And I believe that if a spaceman came to Earth, he would see all our shenanigans and he would say, ‘Wait a minute, you guys are capable of some really beautiful stuff.’”

The Man Who Fell to Earth is anticipated to hit Showtime in Spring.

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