The follow up to Netflix's acclaimed Dark series is finally coming! Yesterday, Netflix released the official teaser for 1899, a mystery series about a group of immigrants above board of the Kerberos traveling from Europe to New York.

When their ship encounters the missing ship Prometheus, things take a spooky turn.

In the trailer, we see the large ensemble cast gathered on the Kerberos. It's clear that despite everyone being from different cultures and coming from different places, what unites them is that they're "all running away from something." Mystery builds as we try to figure out what's going on and what secrets everyone holds, and a man's voice chillingly says:

"People are oblivious to reality. They only see what they want to see. All they have to do is shift their perspective to see the full scope of things."

1899 comes two years after the third and final season of Dark. The show comes from German showrunner Jantje Friese and director-producer Baran bo Odar, and features an international cast speaking in their native languages.

The cast includes Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau, Maciej Musial, Lucas Lynggaard Tonnesen, Rosalie Craig, Yann Gael, Mathilde Ollivier, Isabella Wei, Gabby Wong, Fflyn Edwards, and Alexandre Willaume, among others.

Interestingly, the show is also an experiment in new production technology, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Similar to how Disney+'s The Mandalorian used LED screens and the Unreal Engine to create stunning backdrops set in space while filming during the COVID-19 pandemic, 1899 also shot in a virtual studio that used LED-Volume technology and video game engine technology to achieve its backdrops.

As described by Insider:

"Artists can create a photorealistic 3D background that moves strictly with the camera's field of view, known as the frustum. So if the camera swings around and changes angles, the background shifts in precisely the same way. This allows motion-tracked cameras to execute traditional cinematography techniques within the virtual set, achieving cinematic movements like the parallax effect, where an object in the foreground moves at a different speed than the background, amplifies the illusion of filming at an actual location."

1899 arrives on Netflix in Autumn or Winter 2022 - and it looks like it's got a lot in store.

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