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Raised By Wolves (American TV Series)
''Raised by Wolves'' is an American science fiction drama television series created by Aaron Guzikowski for HBO Max. The first two episodes were directed by Ridley Scott, who also serves as an executive producer for the show. The series premiered on September 3, 2020. It was renewed for a second season shortly after its debut, which premiered on February 3, 2022. The first season was met with generally positive reviews from critics, while the second season has received critical acclaim. In June 2022, the series was cancelled after two seasons. The series was removed from HBO Max in December 2022. Premise ''Raised by Wolves'' centers on two androids, Father and Mother, tasked with raising human children on Kepler-22b after the Earth is destroyed by a great war. As religious differences threaten to tear apart the burgeoning colony of humans, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task. Cast and characters Main * Amanda Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction On Television
Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality. Visual production process and methods The need to portray imaginary settings or characters with properties and abilities beyond the reach of current reality obliges producers to make extensive use of specialized techniques of television production. Through most of the 20th century, many of these techniques were expensive and involved a small number of dedicated craft practitioners, while the reusability of props, models, effects, or animation techniques made it easier to keep using them. The combination of high initial cost and lower maintenance cost pushed producers into building these techniques into the basic concept of a series, influencing all the artistic choices. By the late 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Simpson
Claire Simpson is a British film editor. For her work on Oliver Stone's ''Platoon'' (1986), she won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and was nominated for '' The Constant Gardener'' (2005), while her work on both films won her the BAFTA Award for Best Editing. She also worked as editor of Stone's '' Salvador'' (1986) and ''Wall Street'' (1987). Claire Simpson - Quotes about editing *"I think that editing has...to do with architecture and, having built a house recently, I can honestly say that dealing with the plumbing can be as tantalizing as disguising the mechanics of the plot." *"Cutting rooms are only dark and gloomy places if you make them so. Hard work, educated taste, sharp instincts, and a flair for the absurd have been essential to my career as an editor as well as important ingredients for my life. And never underestimate the value of good luck. I know many extraordinarily talented people who have not been lucky enough to win an Academy Award. Don't get me wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph May
Joseph May is a British-born Canadian actor, who has appeared in television and film. He is best known for his role as Adam Moseby in '' Bugs'', Andy Button in the television series ''Episodes'', Paul who was the boyfriend of Sam Colloby, in '' Casualty'', Luke in '' I Live with Models'' and for voicing Thomas in the US dub of the children's television series ''Thomas & Friends'' from 2015 to 2021. His other television roles include Dan Sanders in ''Hollyoaks'', Sgt. Markham in '' Stargate: Atlantis'' and Justin Trudeau in '' The Windsors''. His voice work in animation and video games include Link in '' G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom'', Mr. Wexler in '' The Barbie Diaries'', Autolycus in '' Class of the Titans'', Michael Corleone in '' The Godfather'', Perdido in '' Xenoblade Chronicles 2'', Chase McCain in '' Lego City Undercover'', Jost and Saravad in '' Horizon Zero Dawn'', Hiro in '' The Crew 2'' and Ellis in '' Blair Witch''. Early life Born in England and raised in Calgary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Pennington
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (born 7 June 1943) is an English actor, director and writer. Together with director Michael Bogdanov, he founded the English Shakespeare Company in 1986 and was its Joint Artistic Director until 1992. He has written ten books, directed in the UK, US, Romania and Japan, and is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is best known for his role as Moff Jerjerrod in the original Star Wars trilogy film ''Return of the Jedi''. Background Pennington was born in Cambridge, the son of Vivian Maynard Cecil Pennington (died 1984) and Euphemia Willock, née Fyfe (died 1987), and grew up in London. He was educated at Marlborough College, became a member of the National Youth Theatre and then read English at Trinity College, Cambridge. Theatre work He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company on graduation and remained in a junior capacity from 1964 to 1966, playing among other things Fortinbras in David Warner's 1965 ''Hamlet''. He t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmo Jarvis
Harrison Cosmo Krikoryan-Jarvis (born ), known as Cosmo Jarvis, is an English actor and former singer-songwriter. He has starred in the films '' Lady Macbeth'' (2016), '' Calm with Horses'' (2019), ''Persuasion'' (2022), and ''Warfare'' (2025). In 2024, he portrayed John Blackthorne in the historical drama series ''Shōgun''. Early life and education Harrison Cosmo Krikoryan-Jarvis was born in in New Jersey, U.S., to an Armenian-American mother and British father. He moved to England with his parents at the age of three months, and moved to Totnes, Devon, as a child, with his mother and younger brother. About his nationality, Jarvis has said: "I came here nglandwhen I was a baby. I've never lived n America... I don't feel a connection to anywhere." Career 2010–2013: Early music career and ''The Naughty Room'' Jarvis confirmed his second album's title as '' Is the World Strange or Am I Strange?'' on his official Facebook page. The first single released from the album was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Engelbrecht
Kim Suzanne Engelbrecht (born 20 June 1980) is a South African actress best known for her roles as Lolly in ''Isidingo'', Sgt. Noma Banks on ''Dominion'' (2014–2015), Marlize DeVoe on ''The Flash'' (2017–18), and the titular character in '' Reyka'' (2021). She has two South African Film and Television Awards as well as a nomination for an International Emmy Award. Career Engelbrecht presented a local youth television programme called ''Take5'' in the 1990s. Much of Engelbrecht's work is localised in Johannesburg. Kim had a starring role in the South African film ''Bunny Chow'', directed by John Barker. She got her first big break at the age of 12 when she landed the lead role of Sara in an Italian production, ''Sarahsara'', in which she played the role of a 12-year-old girl of Sudanese descent who swims from the Isle of Capri to Napoli in Italy. Engelbrecht starred as Marlize DeVoe in the fourth season (2017–2018) of ''The Flash''. In an interview with Kyle Zeeman of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Harkness (actor)
James Harkness is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Craig Myers in the BBC crime drama '' The Victim'' (2019), as James in BBC drama '' The Nest'' (2020) and footballer Jimmy Love in the Netflix drama ''The English Game'' (2020) and the Sky Original '' Gangs of London''. Early life Harkness was raised by his mother in a deprived household in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. He studied at King's Park Secondary School and took an interest in drama from an early age. At the age of 18, he suffered arm injuries from being struck with an axe (a weapon he brought to a confrontation relating to a stolen mobile phone), which later caused panic attacks when he passed the location of the incident – Pollokshaws – or even saw someone walking with a phone. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sienna Guillory
Sienna Tiggy Guillory (; born 16 March 1975) is an English actress and former model. She portrayed Jill Valentine in several entries of the '' Resident Evil'' action-horror film series. Other prominent roles include elf princess Arya Dröttningu in the fantasy-adventure film '' Eragon'', and the title role in the TV miniseries ''Helen of Troy''. She has appeared in TV shows including '' Fortitude'', '' Stan Lee's Lucky Man'', and '' Luther''. Early life Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, Guillory is the daughter of American folk guitarist Isaac Guillory and his first wife, English model Tina Thompson, who married in 1973. Her father was the son of American and Turkish-Jewish parents and born at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Her parents moved to Fulham, London, when Guillory was two, then later to Norfolk when she was 11. At the age of ten, she went to stay with cousins in Mexico to learn Spanish. She has a half-brother, who has the same mother. Her father ado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mithraism
Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman Empire, Roman mystery religion focused on the god Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian peoples, Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity (''yazata'') Mithra, the Roman Mithras was linked to a new and distinctive imagery, and the degree of continuity between Persian and Greco-Roman practice remains debatable. The mysteries were popular among the Imperial Roman army from the 1st to the 4th century AD. Worshippers of Mithras had a complex system of seven grades of initiation and communal ritual meals. Initiates called themselves ''syndexioi'', those "united by the handshake". They met in dedicated ''mithraeum, mithraea'' (singular ''mithraeum''), underground Roman temple, temples that survive in large numbers. The cult (religious practice), cult appears to have had its centre in ancient Rome, Rome, and was popular throughout the Western Roman Empire, western half of the empire, as far so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Hawkins (actor, Born 1985)
Jack Tregilgas Hawkins (born 6 October 1985) is an English actor, known for his work on the BBC One series ''Call the Midwife'' and the HBO Max series '' Raised by Wolves''. Early life He was born in Ipswich and was educated at the Ipswich School between 1996 and 2004, where he was Head Boy. He read Jurisprudence at Balliol College, Oxford and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 2007 to 2009. Career Hawkins has performed acting roles in film, on television and on the stage. In 2017 he joined the cast of the BBC television show ''Call the Midwife'' as Christopher Dockerill. He plays the recurring character Alex Lambert in the BBC medical drama ''Holby City'', and appeared as Mickey Aluffi in the 2016 film ''The Head Hunter'', and Phil in ''Writers Retreat''. In 2014 Hawkins played the part of William in the film ''The Cross'', which was filmed in various locations in northern England. He appeared in Trevor Nunn's adaptation of Sebastian Faulk's novel ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to Planetary habitability, harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained in its global ocean, covering Water distribution on Earth, 70.8% of Earth's crust. The remaining 29.2% of Earth's crust is land, most of which is located in the form of continental landmasses within Earth's land hemisphere. Most of Earth's land is at least somewhat humid and covered by vegetation, while large Ice sheet, sheets of ice at Polar regions of Earth, Earth's polar polar desert, deserts retain more water than Earth's groundwater, lakes, rivers, and Water vapor#In Earth's atmosphere, atmospheric water combined. Earth's crust consists of slowly moving tectonic plates, which interact to produce mountain ranges, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Earth's outer core, Earth has a liquid outer core that generates a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kepler-22b
Kepler-22b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation ''KOI-087.01'') is an exoplanet orbiting within the Circumstellar habitable zone, habitable zone of the Solar analog, Sun-like star Kepler-22. It is located about from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus (constellation), Cygnus. It was discovered by NASA's Kepler (spacecraft), Kepler Space Telescope in December 2011 and was the first known Transit method, transiting planet to orbit within the habitable zone of a Sun-like star, where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. Kepler-22 is too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Kepler-22b's radius is roughly twice that of Earth. Its mass and surface composition are unknown. However, an Structure of the Earth, Earth-like composition for the planet is believed to be unlikely; it is more likely to be an ocean planet or have a Volatile (astrogeology), volatile-rich composition with a liquid or gaseous outer shell. The only parameters of the planet's orbit tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
