SCOTT This planet had life on it prior to these people’s arrival. I’ve got to set the pace and direct the pilot.” He immediately started storyboarding and designing costumes, spaceships and more, and he ended up directing the first two episodes. “It’s a very rare bird, this story,” he said. “I try not to play the old music.”īut by the time Scott finished reading the script, he had changed his mind. “My tendency was to think, ‘I don’t want to go down that road of androids again,’” said Scott, the creator of “Blade Runner” and the “Alien” series. The writer Aaron Guzikowski had submitted the project for production consideration, and while the story spoke to Scott’s sensibilities, he worried about repeating himself. That changed after he read the pilot script for “Raised by Wolves,” which debuted in September on HBO Max. But none of those shows bore his distinct visual stamp.
(He got his start as a director doing live TV at the BBC.) Scott has spent most of his career in film and commercials, with his TV work generally limited to executive producing series like “The Good Wife” and “The Terror,” among others. Outside of a failed pilot in 2013, it had been about 50 years since Ridley Scott sat in the director’s chair for a television series. This interview includes spoilers for the first season of “Raised by Wolves.”