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Julie Plec discusses what would've happened if given a 2nd season

posted 8 years ago by Just_Jimmy
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Writer Julie Plec on an interview on EW.COM discusses what wouldve happened if they got a season 2....

What would you have done with a season 2?
We had so many plans, and what’s exciting to me, in the midst of my despair, is that the Belgian company has made a second series of the show, so we get to see their story continue on. Maybe if nothing else, more people will watch that now that they don’t get to watch ours.

We really wanted to spend a season dealing with the day-to-day community building of being inside a quarantine that feels like it might never end and really explore what society goes through when they are essentially left to die. And then we were planning on building a really tremendous conspiracy outside the cordon that Leo Green was going to be chasing in a great kind of All the President’s Men way as he connected the origins of the virus back to a big pharma company. We wanted to see what it was like for Lex to end up in a community where suddenly Jake was really, for all intents and purposes, the mayor, and what conflict that would create between those two friends. We wanted to see Jana as the mama bear queen of the community as we see people starting to experiment with how do we communicate, can we have radio, how do we get the message out, how do we educate our kids? What’s poor Quinton going to be like as a teenager growing up in this community? What are the other kids? Are they troublemakers? We had a lot of plans. And I’m super sad that we’re not going to be able to tell those stories.

FULL INTERVIEW AT EW.COM
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/19/containment-series-finale-season-2-julie-plec

[–] complex-gal-1 8 years ago

This is very interesting. Thanks for posting it!

[–] magemaximus 8 years ago

damn julie plec

You can't persuade fanboys. You'd be better off trying to convince a wall. ~CodeNamePlasmaSnake~

[–] isis-36 8 years ago

I'm even more disappointed now. :(

[–] complex-gal-1 8 years ago

Here's the link made clickable:
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/19/containment-series-finale-season-2-julie-plec

Here's a longer interview:

http://tvline.com/2016/07/19/containment-recap-season-1-finale-series-finale/

TVLINE | Was this always the ending you envisioned? You didn’t make any tweaks after finding out the show would not continue?

No. This [episode] was shot in December, delivered in February and aired exactly as it was intended.

TVLINE | Correct me if I’m wrong, but when the show was announced at upfronts, it wasn’t labeled a limited event series. That came much later.

Yeah. That came out of, I think, a desire to “eventize” the experience. They knew that since the show did have a satisfying ending that it was a risk they were willing to take, that it could work as a single [season] series if it needed to, or it could live on. Between the marketing point of view and wanting to get people excited and knowing that they weren’t misleading the audience — because if it did, in fact, end, it would feel like it had a proper ending — those were the choices that they decided to make.

TVLINE | Was there anything that you would have done differently if you had known it was going to be a one-season series?

Well, if I had known that from the beginning, I would have finished the story. I would have found a way to find a cure and see a sense of hope that the quarantine would be lifted. We got pretty close to that, coincidentally, so that’s good. But I would have liked to see it go on for another chapter in order to tell the other half of the story.

[–] magemaximus 8 years ago

that sucks. she thought it would get another season lol.

You can't persuade fanboys. You'd be better off trying to convince a wall. ~CodeNamePlasmaSnake~

[–] Just_Jimmy 8 years ago

complexgal thanks for that add'l interview that was an interesting read as well. I didn't know that they set it up as a "it could go either way". figured it was always a "limited event" and when people starting posting it was cancelled i figured they were ill informed as it was just the one season.

so yeah, great read thanks....and appreciate you fixing my link. =)

[–] FatalxKrystal 8 years ago

I don't think she's in that position to be cocky, anymore.

[–] royaltyaroundhere 8 years ago

Thanks for posting that! It was an interesting read. Too bad the series wasn't renewed.

[–] paulmarkj 8 years ago

Just watch the second series of Cordon. I've seen both and they stories are very similar.

[–] AmandaJoy1978 7 years ago

Where were you able to watch Cordon?

[–] xsomanymoviessolittletimex 7 years ago

Big pharma - that's probably why it wasn't renewed. Probably if we knew what they and the government were involved in we would be scared to death.

[–] EmperorOfDragons (291) 7 years ago

paranoia fuel