Now that he’s just about finished promoting his environmentally conscious movie about a Flood that wiped out most of the world’s population in the distant past, Darren Aronofsky has signed on to produce an environmentally conscious HBO series about a “Waterless Flood” — actually a pandemic brought about by genetic engineering — that wipes out most of the world’s population in the near future.
The series, MaddAddam, will be based on Margaret Atwood’s trilogy of that name, which includes the books Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.
Interestingly, this series not only has the environmental themes that Aronofsky has been plugging into lately, but it may have the sort of religious themes that have popped up throughout his filmography as well. I have not read these books, but I gather that they revolve, in part, around a group of people known as “God’s Gardeners”. Here is how Atwood described them in an article for Sojourners on the real-life Christian environmental group A Rocha.