‘Extrapolations’: Watch the Trailer for Apple’s Climate Change Drama Series (Video)
thewrap.comApple released the trailer for its new climate change-focused drama series “Extrapolations” from writer Scott Z. Burns (“Contagion,” “An Inconvenient Truth,” “The Report”).“Today, people get their energy from the sun.
Humans have set foot on Mars,” Daveed Diggs’ Marshall Zucker says at the beginning of the clip, as a montage of technological advancements unfolds. “Cancer has been defeated.
And yet for every question answered another one appears.” Cut to two businessmen in a restaurant while one (Matthew Rhys) advises the other on the state of the planet.“Here’s what you need to know about global warming,” he says. “It will all go to s— at the end of the century.
We’ll be dead. We’ll have to miss it, but we’ll be smiling in gold plated coffins.”“The man whose house is on fire is incredibly easy to negotiate with,” a character played by Kit Harrington says, while an activist (Yara Shahidi) projected in a large holographic display tells a crowd “we cannot give up and go home for one simple reason: We already are home, this is our only home.”A character played by Edward Norton compares climate change to a bear as flooding, hurricanes and other natural disasters flash forward alongside years like 2037, 2046, 2047, 2052, 2059, 2066, 2068 and 2070, Burns wrote, directed and executive produced the series, which contains eight interconnected episodes that fictionalizes the effects of climate change.
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