Near the height of the streaming boom in 2018, a half-dozen studios and video platforms lined up to woo a little-known filmmaker named Carl Erik Rinsch. He had directed only one movie, “47 Ronin.” It was a commercial and critical dud, and Rinsch’s tussles with its producers had raised eyebrows. But demand for new content was intense. Amid the feeding frenzy, the project that Rinsch was pitching — a science-fiction series about artificial humans — became a hot property. After a competitive auctio