A new teaser trailer has been released for Syfy‘s upcoming new original drama Defiance. Developed by Rockne S. O’Bannon (Farscape), Defiance is attempting to break from the traditional sci-fi show as was developed concurrently with an online video game by Trion. Defiance is set on a future Earth and introduces players and viewers to a world where humans and aliens live together on a planet ravaged by decades of war and transformed by alien terra-forming machines. Grant Bowler (True Blood) has been cast in the lead role and plays a character called Jeb Nolan, the law-keeper in a bustling frontier boomtown that is one of the new world’s few havens of civility and inclusion. Nolan is a former Marine who fought in the alien conflict and suffered the loss of his wife and child in the war. The trauma transformed him into a lone wanderer in the wilds of this new and dangerous world inhabited by surviving humans and aliens. This certainly looks like an interesting concept, with a feel of Battlestar Galactica / Falling Skies...
Defiance is set to premiere in April 2013.
