What happens when nature strikes back? In various regions of the world, the sea suddenly seems to pose an indefinite danger. A handful of international scientists see a larger connection between the events and put forward a thesis that shakes the very foundations of human civilization: Out there, at great depths, there is intelligent life older and more powerful than humanity, and that it is now starts to fight back…
The international cast includes Leonie Benesch, Barbara Sukowa, Oliver Masucci, Klaas Heufer-Umlauf and Franziska Weisz.
Even before the author’s criticisms became known, producer and showrunner Frank Doelger told the station about the series project: “I also realized how difficult it would be to condense the 900-page exploration of the natural phenomena that drive the story into a compelling, character-centric transform series.” What was decisive for him was “that I imagined the series as a ‘monster film’ in which the protagonists are aware that something is lurking out there, but don’t know exactly what”. The monster’s existence was to be “hinted at from the beginning, but not revealed until the very end”. Doelger summarizes: “So a monster movie where we realize that we are the monsters. That was the challenge we set ourselves.”
