Raised by Wolves Producer Confirms What Really Killed Season 3
The second season of Raised by Wolves was critically acclaimed, but that wasn't enough to save the sci-fi show from cancellation.
Fans of Aaron Guzikowski’s Raised by Wolves were gutted to hear that there would be no season 3 of the acclaimed sci-fi series back in June 2022. At the time, Abubakar Salim, who led the cast as Father alongside Amanda Collin as Mother, suggested that the huge WarnerMedia and Discovery Inc. merger was responsible for Raised by Wolves’ sudden cancelation, which has now been confirmed by David W. Zucker, CCO at Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions.
Zucker told ScreenRant that the merger was indeed to blame for Raised by Wolves’ fate, noting that new CEO “David Zaslav [came] in” and that led to “our third season [getting] set aside” by HBO Max, adding, “I personally wish that we would be able to bring Raised by Wolves back,” and noting that he “never thought we would make an Alien or Blade Runner series” so keeps “hoping that [show] might have another day.”
The Raised by Wolves producer was, of course, referring to two of Scott Free Productions’ newer offerings, Alien: Earth, currently in production on a second season, and Blade Runner 2099, an upcoming miniseries set to debut on Prime Video in 2027. Still, you can sense that Raised by Wolves has certainly not been forgotten by those behind the scenes, even with some shiny new toys to play with.
Raised by Wolves imagined a future version of Earth that had been destroyed in a war between atheists and a religious group called the Mithraic. In the aftermath, two androids (Collin’s Mother and Salim’s Father) were sent to a distant planet along with human embryos in an effort to start a society of peaceful atheists. However, this plan was disrupted when Mithraic colonists also arrived and reignited the old feud between the two groups. Not only that, their new planet was full of secrets that challenged both religious and scientific explanations, and many of the show’s mysteries were left unresolved after the show’s abrupt cancellation.
After the WBD merger, the series was removed from HBO Max, and it is still searching for a streaming home.