Frank Spotnitz, executive producer and writer of legendary sci-fi series The X-Files, returns to the genre with Swedish show We Come in Peace, Variety reports today.
Spotnitz, who served on The X-Files for eight of its nine seasons after joining the show in 1994, will work as co-producer through his London-based Big Light Productions, writing supervisor and executive producer alongside Big Light’s Adrian Banyard, Variety confirms.
Piodor Gustafsson (Border, Lamb) of Black Spark Film & TV will also produce.
Fares Fares (Cairo Conspiracy, Westworld) and Evin Ahmad (Snabba Cash) star in the six-part series, which is the brainchild of Swedish creator-writer Lars Lundström (Real Humans).
In We Come in Peace:
The grounded sci-fi explores the chaos unleashed when a mysterious jellyfish-like object appears in the sky over Stockholm, sparking widespread panic, fear and confusion among the population. The main protagonists are Elias Kazemi, played by Fares, the head of Sweden’s emergency response agency who tries to manage the rising public fear and foreign interference, and biologist Zandra Kraft (Ahmad) who believes she has found the means to communicate with the unknown creature and joins forces with Elias.
Before long, the creature releases an extraordinary energy source which could indefinitely power the planet, and a number of smaller creatures start to spread throughout Sweden, assimilating and adopting human DNA. As dark forces gather and violence levels rise, Zandra, Elias and Prime Minister Moa Holmgren must decide whether these creatures and their ‘mother’ represent the subjugation of human-kind, or its best chance of survival.
Sounds a little bit like Jordan Peele's Nope meets Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, and we're sold.
Lundström expanded on the story, set to premiere in late 2025:
“We humans don’t really know about outer space and perhaps in 200 years, we will look back at our time, and feel we were quite ignorant […] Then the pandemic hit and gave a whole new meaning to this vision of humanity in transition. All of a sudden, we human beings were faced with a major disaster. Governments were under pressure and the public wanted answers that politicians and scientists were struggling to deliver.”
For more on We Come in Peace read the full interview with Spotznitz on Variety.
