Damien Season 2 Discussions Confirmed, Plans Revealed

Glen Mazzara is ready to get to work on Damien Season 2 and says renewal discussions are currently taking place, per Blastr:

That’s being discussed between A+E and Fox 21 Television studios. I know I’m excited about it, and we have a great creative team of directors, writers, and actors who are ready to get back to work. I have a lot of ideas (see above) for what that season is, specific episodes and character arcs, I just hope we get that opportunity.

The showrunner teased some of those plans:

Sadly, Amani met a similar fate to Veronica [sans being violated by tree roots] and was put in a mass grave with Sister Greta Fraueva (Robin Weigert) and later show this somewhat ambiguous hand breaking through the dirt. Now, Sister Greta wasn’t shot, but regardless of who is clawing their way up, either choice would make for interesting storylines in Season 2.

GM: We have an idea of who that is. There’s a lot of story there but I’m not going to give that away. We just wanted to set stuff up for Season 2, I don’t really like to do cliffhangers, especially with Damien, but we do like to set stuff up. It’s a very dark, bleak episode. So that hand coming out of grave is such a beautiful, horror movie image, how could we not do that? We also wanted to set up the Vatican Death Squad. [Laughs] These guys are finally mobilized and are coming in.

Meggido, Israel was mentioned in the finale as the place to fend off the Armageddon, is that site going to be in play for the future or was that more of a Hail Mary thought given the impending doom and panic of the finale?

GM: Well, the show started out in Syria and I do think that you can’t tell an Antichrist story without involving Jerusalem. I do think that’s part of the original film and our story too. At some point Damien has to go to the holy land at some point. I wouldn’t promise it for Season 2 but it is something that is part of his story, I don’t want to give anything more away. The other thing I would expect to see in future seasons is Damien out in the field as a war journalist or a celebrity. I do think this is a figure on a world stage. I like the global opportunities of the characters. He’s a world traveler (and potentially) a world leader.

Stay tuned as we continue to monitor the status of Damien Season 2…