James R | On 20, Oct 2020

Netflix has cancelled Away after one season.

From Executive Producer Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights), the space drama celebrates the incredible advancements humans can achieve and the personal costs they face along the way. Hilary Swank stars as American astronaut Emma Green, who is preparing to lead an international crew on the first mission to Mars. But she must reconcile her decision to leave behind her husband (Josh Charles) and teenage daughter (Talitha Bateman) when they need her the most.

Created by Andrew Hinderaker, the series is executive produced by showrunner Jessica Goldberg, Jason Katims, Matt Reeves, Andrew Hinderaker, Edward Zwick, Hilary Swank, Adam Kassan and Jeni Mulein.

“Netflix’s open-hearted space voyage is a winningly old-school ensemble drama,” we wrote in our review.

Its old-school charms weren’t quite winning enough, however, as a month on from its release, Deadline has reported that Away will not lift off for a second voyage.

 

Watch: New trailer for Netflix’s Away

10th August 2020

“The further away I get, I’m actually getting closer to being back to you.” That’s the sound of Netflix getting its Interstellar on with a new space drama about exploration, love and sacrifice.

From Executive Producer Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights), the drama celebrates the incredible advancements humans can achieve and the personal costs they face along the way. Hilary Swank stars as American astronaut Emma Green, who is preparing to lead an international crew on the first mission to Mars. But she must reconcile her decision to leave behind her husband (Josh Charles) and teenage daughter (Talitha Bateman) when they need her the most.

Created by Andrew Hinderaker, the series is executive produced by showrunner Jessica Goldberg, Jason Katims, Matt Reeves, Andrew Hinderaker, Edward Zwick, Hilary Swank, Adam Kassan and Jeni Mulein.

The series premieres on Netflix on 4th September. Here’s the new video:

 

Trailer: Netflix’s Away arrives this September

8th July 2020

Netflix is heading Away this September for its new sci-fi drama starring Hilary Swank – and a new trailer gives us our first look at the show.

In the near future, a crewed spacecraft is sent to Mars. For this high-stakes mission, a team of elite astronauts are assembled from around the globe. They hail from the United States, Russia, China, India, and Great Britain. If all goes well, they will be away from the place they call home and the people they love for three years. During this time, their relationships both on Earth and in space will be tested, as they struggle to stay alive and stay on track in pursuit of humanity’s most important goal. The world will be watching.

Loosely inspired by the Chris Jones article from Esquire, which documented renowned astronaut Scott Kelly’s mission to space, it is created by Andrew Hinderaker, who wrote the first episode, and boasts Friday Night Lights’ Jason Katims as writer and exec-producer and The Path’s Jessica Goldberg as showrunner.

The series touches down on 4th September. Here’s the trailer:

 

 

Netflix rounds out cast for sci-fi series Away

10th August 2019

Josh Charles is one of the stars set to go Away with Hilary Swank for a new Netflix series.

Away centers on Emma Logan, an American astronaut who must leave her husband and teenage daughter behind to command an international space crew embarking upon a treacherous mission. It is a series about hope, humanity and how we need one another if we are to achieve impossible things. The series is loosely inspired by the Chris Jones article from ESQUIRE, which documented renowned astronaut Scott Kelly’s mission to space.

Charles (The Good Wife) will co-star as Matt Logan, a NASA engineer whose wife is commanding the first mission to Mars. He faces the already enormous challenges of dealing with the mission from home, while trying to raise their teenage daughter on his own, but when he goes through a life-altering experience in the first episode he will understand the true cost of what it means to be away from each other.

They will be joined by Talitha Bateman (Love Simon, Annabelle: Creation) as Alexis, Emma and Matt’s teenage daughter who must now come of age with her father facing life-changing health challenges and her mother in space, Ato Essandoh (Altered Carbon, Blue Bloods) as Kwesi, a British-Ghanaian botanist and the mission’s only rookie astronaut, Mark Ivanir (Homeland, Barry) as Misha, a veteran Russian cosmonaut and the ship’s engineer,

Ray Panthaki (Gangs of London, Marcella, Colette) as Ram, an Indian astronaut and the crew’s medic, co-pilot and second-in-command, and Vivian Wu (Cathy Yan’s Dead Pigs, Rúyì Zhuàn) as Lu, a Chinese taikonaut and the crew’s geologist and chemist.

The series is loosely inspired by the Chris Jones article from Esquire, which documented renowned astronaut Scott Kelly’s mission to space.

It is created by Andrew Hinderaker, who wrote the first episode and serves as an executive producer. Jessica Goldberg (The Path) will be showrunner, writer, and executive producer on the project. Ed Zwick (Nashville, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, The Last Samurai) will direct the first episode and serve as an executive producers, while Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood) will write and exec produce. Other EPs include Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Cloverfield, Felicity), Adam Kassan, Michelle Lee (Episode 1 only) and Jeni Mulein (Episodes 2-10).

 

Hilary Swank heads to Mars in Netflix’s Away

9th May

Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry, Million Dollar Baby, PS I Love You) is heading to Mars for Netflix’s new series Away.

The 10-episode sci-fi drama, which is exec-produced by Cloverfield’s Matt Reeves, is loosely inspired by Chris Jones’ Esquire article of the same name. Announced last year, it’s now found its leading star, with two-time Oscar winner Swank coming aboard to play Emma Green.

An American astronaut, she must leave her husband and teenage daughter behind to command an international space crew embarking upon a treacherous mission. It is a series about hope, humanity and how we need one another if we are to achieve impossible things.

Jessica Goldberg (The Path) will serve as showrunner, writer, and executive producer. Swank will also serve as an executive producer on the series, alongside Ed Zwick (Nashville, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, The Last Samurai), who will direct the first episode, and Andrew Hinderaker, who will write the first episode; and Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood), who will also serve as writer. Other EPs include Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Cloverfield, Felicity), Adam Kassan, Michelle Lee (episode 101 only), and Jeni Mulein (for episodes 102-110).

 

Netflix heads to Mars with new series Away

11th June 2018

Netflix is heading to Mars for its latest original series Away.

The sci-fi drama, which is exec-produced by Cloverfield’s Matt Reeves, is loosely inspired by Chris Jones’ Esquire article of the same name. It is an epic love story and a thrilling tale of survival set against humanity’s greatest endeavor – the first human mission to Mars.

It will follow Emma, an American astronaut who must leave her husband and teenage daughter behind in order to command an international space crew embarking upon a treacherous, year-long mission. Away is a series about hope, humanity and how ultimately, we need one another if we are to achieve impossible things.

Netflix has commissioned a 10-episode season from Universal Television, True Jack Productions and 6th & Idaho, with Andrew Hinderaker (pictured) and Jason Katims writing and co-exec-producing. Michelle Lee will exec produce the first episode, while Jeni Mulein will co-exec produce the remaining nine episodes.

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