Children of Others

Skylar and Dillon Russell have spent years and every credit card on fertility treatments that haven't worked. When an old acquaintance slips Skylar a business card for a free clinical trial, she tries one more time. The pregnancy takes — just as news starts to break about children mysteriously aging, years of growth in months. Government agents are investigating affected families.

Fertility clinics start to explode and a leaked video appears to show a man shifting into alien form. Skylar and Dillon must decide whether to believe the government, who say the children are engineered as weapons of invasion, or trust an underground network that claims the children are earth's protection, not its threat.

We love the groundedness of Children of Others — how the entire first act plays as a domestic drama about a couple whose marriage is staggering under the weight of a vulnerable pregnancy, before escalating into a global conspiracy story, and finally something stranger and more hopeful: a story about who we trust to raise the future.

Great elevated sci-fi stems from great drama combined with real ideas. This is aimed at adult genre viewers (25–54) as well as women — specifically women who have lived through fertility treatment, miscarriage, or the social pressure surrounding both. A demographic that showed up for The Handmaid's Tale. And in a moment defined by post-Roe politics, immigration crackdowns, and a renewed cultural obsession with motherhood, this story is of-the-moment.

Winner of Amazon Studios Best Script Prize.