Given all the doomsday bunker TV shows in recent years — Silo, Fallout, The Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt, Doomsday Bunkers — you knew an animated version for kids and families would come along eventually. And it has. In the WondLa, a teen born and living underground is forced to a surface of Earth populated by aliens and covered in otherworldy plants and animals.
So what happened to all the humans?
Update: The ambitious animated adventure series is now on Apple TV+. All seven episodes of the first season are available to stream immediately.
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WondLa animated adventure series trailer brings doomsday-bunker teen to an otherworldly Earth’s surface
WondLa trailer is an animated adventure series based on The New York Times bestselling book series The Search for WondLa, by Tony DiTerlizzi.
Here’s how Apple TV+ describes the series (and note that the main character, Eva, looks like she could be the sister of the main character in Luck, the Apple TV+ animated 3D movie, also from Skydance Animation):
WondLa centers around Eva, voiced by Jeanine Mason (Roswell, New Mexico), a curious, enthusiastic and spirited teenager being raised in a state-of-the-art underground bunker by Muthr, a robot caretaker, voiced by Emmy Award nominee Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives). On her 16th birthday, an attack on Eva’s bunker forces her onto the Earth’s surface, which is now inhabited by aliens and covered with otherworldly fauna, and there are no other humans to be found.
In fact, it’s no longer called Earth, but Orbona. Otto, a lovable giant waterbear with whom Eva shares telepathic powers, voiced by Emmy Award winner Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond), and Rovender, a cantankerous alien with a troubled past, voiced by Gary Anthony Williams (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows), join Eva as she leads the team on a dangerous quest to find humans, her home and her true destiny.
Also lending their voices to the cast are Chiké Okonkwo (The Birth of a Nation, La Brea) as Besteel, the greatest hunter in all of Orbona; D.C. Douglas (Sharknado 2: The Second One, Black Ops) as Omnipod, Dynastes Corporation’s sentient hand-held device, issued to every human at the age of six; and Emmy Award nominee Alan Tudyk (Resident Alien) as Cadmus Pryde, founder of Dynastes Corporation.
Watch the trailer for WondLa on Apple TV+
Bobs Gannaway showruns and executive produces the series. DiTerlizzi and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, Julie Kane-Ritsch and Skydance Animation’s John Lasseter, David Ellison and Dana Goldberg also executive produce.
Watch kids and family shows on Apple TV+
WondLa is now on Apple TV+ with all the episodes of season one available. Watching comes with a subscription to Apple TV+. The service is $9.99 per month with a seven-day free trial. You can also get it via any tier of the Apple One subscription bundle.
The award-winning slate of original series and films for kids and families on Apple TV+ also includes the celebrated live action animated hybrid special, The Velveteen Rabbit and the Academy Award and BAFTA Award-winning animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.
Get the service by subscription for $9.99 with a seven-day free trial. You can also get it via any tier of the Apple One subscription bundle. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free.
Source: Apple TV+
