‘Contagion’ Writer Scott Z. Burns On How The Pandemic Inspired The Creation Of Apple TV+’s ‘Extrapolations’ — Contenders TV
deadline.comExtrapolations executive producers Dorothy Fortenberry, Michael Ellenberg and Scott Z. Burns, who also serves as creator, writer and director, joined Deadline’s Contenders TV event to talk about what went into creating a potentially fictitious and disastrous future Earth.
Extrapolations drops viewers into 2037, where climate change has ravaged the planet. As fires scorch the Middle East and rising tides engulf sinking cities, world leaders, scientists and everyday citizens must figure out how to save what’s left of life on Earth.
The series is told through eight interconnected stories exploring climate change’s devastating impact. Extrapolations stars Kit Harrington, Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Forest Whitaker and Marion Cotillard. RELATED: TV – Deadline’s Full Coverage “When I was doing the research for Contagion, all of the scientists who I spoke to said the same thing,[that[ it wasn’t really a matter of if there was going to be another pandemic, it was just a matter of when,” Burns explained. “And obviously, I had no idea.
They had no idea. But we had seen other viruses jump into the human population like SARS had already happened in [the early 2000s].
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