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Netflix’s ‘Away’ Uses Mars Mission to Tell a Timely Store of Isolation and Aspirational Ideals
Netflix is taking us to Mars, and we got the inside story on how it’ll look. As part of the CTAM (or Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing) summer press tour for Netflix, reporters got a deeper look at their upcoming drama, Away, which dramatizes in the near future, the world’s first human-led voyage to Mars. It stars Hilary Swank at U.S. Commander Emma Green, along with actors Ray Panthaki, Ato Essandoh, Mark Ivanir and Vivian Wu as members of her multi-national team of scientists and astronauts.
Executive producer Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights), creator/EP Andrew Hinderaker and showrunner/EP Jessica Goldberg virtually collected their core cast to reveal an extended trailer and explain how they believe the show itself has evolved into an even more timely tale for our pandemic reality.
Opening the conversation, Katims explained: “We had shot the first season and were in post when we all had to go home and work remotely. Editors and producers and VFX were sending cuts back and forth trying to figure out how to do this without human interaction. We found ourselves rewatching cuts of the show that resonated like we never imagined. It’s about [the characters] not being with people who are most important to you, making life decisions without your husband or kid, and not being able to step out into the world.” And while Katims said the show is about many things, the core of the series is clearly even more rooted in revealing the human spirit and how, when it’s tested, what it’s capable of accomplishing.
