The Shield Season 8 revival? Series creator Shawn Ryan would “love” to resurrect the FX crime drama, but finds himself stuck in “two minds”, as he explains to EW:’
To me, it’s hard not to want to recapture that feeling we all had when we were making the show. But nostalgia is a tricky thing. [..] You can’t recreate the time and experience of first seeing it. I’m of two minds: Something that would bring me back to all those friends, feelings, and the freedom we had making the show — I would love. I do think the ending is such a high bar and I would only come back if I thought we could beat that or exceed that, and I honestly don’t know if we could. Artistically, I’m in the camp of leaving it there. [..] I never want to close the door to it continuing in some way, but I never want to give unnecessary hope to the fans. I don’t know what the future holds. I’ve never definitively decided what Vic Mackey is doing now. As a fan of The Shield, I am interested in seeing that.
On the Shield movie reboot that never happened:
There was a time a few years after The Shield ended, where I was having some talks with Fox’s movie division about something Shield-related. I had a pitch and what intrigued me about that pitch is that for the first 30 to 40 minutes of the movie, you wouldn’t meet anyone from The Shield universe. Then, at a certain point, Vic Mackey comes in to the main character’s world. That to me at least felt like I wasn’t just trying to make two more episodes of The Shield, it felt like something new and different that could stand on its own and wouldn’t detract from the show’s legacy. For various reasons, that never happened and now, any momentum for that is probably gone.
The Shield remains in the TV afterlife for now — but with the revival door not fully locked and bolted, stay tuned for potential updates…
Angela qd says
Please bring back the shield. We here in Brooklyn NY got hooked. We are going thru withdrawals. Bring season 8 !!!!!