RETURN TO MARS

After the world emerges from a nuclear war that plunged it into a new dark age, two scientists lead a mission to Mars to recover advanced technology essential to Earth’s survival—technology that terraformed Mars 100 years earlier—with the challenge of confronting a significantly advanced society.

In 2121, a colony of scientists on Mars began the terraforming process.

On Earth, a nuclear war plunged the world into a new dark age. Pockets of survivors, separated by a toxic landscape, struggled to cope with a new reality.

Worse, the medical/technical advances that had drastically increased human lifespan—many to the age of 250 years or more—were lost to all but a few, the few who had the foreknowledge and ability to seek refuge in a facility built for survival.

On Mars, it was the opposite situation.

Mars flourished. Cities were built. The population of the original 500 scientists grew almost exponentially since they realized they might be humanity’s only hope, given the situation on Earth.

Earth eventually clawed its way back to roughly where it had been in 2121. This, however, was one hundred years later.

Earth’s leaders planned a mission to Mars to recover the terraforming technology that was now essential to Earth’s recovery. 

They realized that Mars’ colonists had continued to evolve in technological terms. They had no idea what to expect.

The series will move from one era to another, and from one world to another, to follow different storylines: the original mission to Mars, the terraforming, the introduction of genetically engineered wildlife, the drama arising out of the challenges they face; and on Earth, after the war, with characters who struggle to survive and to communicate with other survivors. And finally, the mission to recover the much needed terraforming technology with the trepidation of not knowing what to expect on Mars with a population so far advanced.

Pilot is finished plus a Pitch Bible for the 5-season series.