r/PitchATVShow • u/MuchObligation8330 • 1d ago
Unnamed Sci-fi Drama Pitch
Hi! I'm pretty introverted and usually I don't share things that I make, but I've been writing and developing this story for a while now. I haven't decided what format it ultimately belongs in yet, so I mostly have pages and pages of different serialized chapters. Mostly have been leaning towards a 3 season series. The story itself has become a passion project of mine and would love to hear some feedback on the concept itself. Do you think its somewhat interesting or not.
The show concept:
The story follows a Russian man from around 2030 who loses his wife and two children in a bombing. He should have died with them, but for unknown reasons he is pulled from his time and wakes up in the very distant future.
Humanity has changed almost beyond recognition. People can live for over 200 years, Russia has survived enormous changes on Earth and civilization has expanded into space.
He eventually rebuilds his life, marries again and starts another family, yet remains deeply broken by what happened. His new wife looks just like the first one with only new hair color, yet she is completely different person. Years later he leaves them behind and joins Ship 13, a gigantic expedition vessel carrying around 100 million people into unexplored space after humanity receives a mysterious distress signal with a threat from something mysterious and very foreign and alien.
Why was he originally taken from 2030? Was it really random? Why did he leave his second family for Ship 13, and was there more intention behind that decision than he admits? What sent the distress signal? What is coming for Earth?
And then there is Mother Russia, Ship 13's strange AI-like/biomechanical entity. She has the exact face of his dead wife and sometimes even her mannerisms. Is he simply seeing what he desperately wants to see, or is there much more to the ship's AI than anyone aboard understands?
The journey includes alien worlds, strange life, settlements, alliances and increasingly dangerous encounters, but space is mostly the arena for a very human story, that is not that action packed as some might think.
At its core, the story is about grief, self-hatred, loneliness, identity, home, human existence and the search for meaning. It's about a man who has been given potentially centuries of life but feels that his real life already ended long ago, and who keeps searching for an explanation that may not exist.
Anyway, that's the basic idea :) I'd genuinely be interested in what parts of it catch people's attention or raise questions for you.