Apple TV+ today revealed the trailer for the star-studded drama Extrapolations, from writer, director and executive producer Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, An Inconvenient Truth, The Report).
The series is told over a season of eight interconnected episodes and produced by Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res.
Extrapolations will make its global premiere on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes on Friday, March 17, 2023, followed by one new episode every Friday through April 21, 2023.
Extrapolations is a bracing limited series that introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives.
Eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across the globe will explore the intimate, life-altering choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population.
Every story is different, but the fight for our future is universal. Are we brave enough to become the solution to our own undoing before it’s too late?
The series stars Yara Shahidi, Kit Harington, Daveed Diggs, Matthew Rhys, Heather Graham, Sienna Miller, Tahar Rahim, Meryl Streep, David Schwimmer, Neska Rose, Judd Hirsch, Cherry Jones, and Edward Norton.
Also starring are Michael Gandolfini, Indira Varma, Diane Lane, Adarsh Gourav, Gaz Choudhry, Keri Russell, Gemma Chan, Marion Cotillard, Forest Whitaker, Hari Nef, Eiza González, Tobey Maguire, Ben Harper, Murray Bartlett, and MaameYaa Boafo.
Extrapolations is executive produced by Burns, Ellenberg, Gregory Jacobs, Dorothy Fortenberry and Media Res’ Lindsey Springer.
The series marks another partnership for Apple TV+ and Media Res, joining Emmy, SAG and Critics Choice Award-winner The Morning Show, and AFI Award-winning series Pachinko.
The series will premiere alongside highly-anticipated Apple Originals also set to make their global debut soon on Apple TV+, including Hello Tomorrow!, Liaison, The Big Door Prize, and Schmigadoon! Season 2.
There’s also Liaison, The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy, The Last Thing He Told Me, The Afterparty Season 2, City on Fire, Swagger Season 2, Ted Lasso Season 3, and more.
Jenna Busch has written and spoken about movies, TV, video games, and comics all over the Internet for over 15 years, co-hosted a series with Stan Lee, appeared on multiple episodes of “Tabletop,” written comic books, and is a contributing author for the 13 books in the “PsychGeeks” series including “Star Wars Psychology.” She founded the site Legion of Leia and hosted the “Legion” podcast.