Warning – this story contains spoilers from the Wayward Pines series finale – continue at your own risk.
Hopes for Wayward Pines Season 2 may have been dashed by FOX’s decision to cancel the series after one season, but the show’s producers remain hopeful that their plans for the next chapter in the series will have an Abbie ending.
Note – The following post-finale interviews were most likely conducted before Wayward Pines was officially axed last week, but further goes to show that a second season was very much in discussion:
DEADLINE: With Charlie Tahan’s character waking up in a rebuilt and seemingly safe town at the end of the finale, it looks and feels like Wayward Pines is perfectly poised for a second season. The numbers are there, the inclination from Fox is there, so are you, Chad and Blake going to head back to Wayward Pines?
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN: We’re super surprised, excited, humbled by the reaction to Wayward Pines, and I did ask Blake to come over to my house, which he did. We did sit down for a few days, and we talked about all kinds of things, and we both felt very good about our time together. We both made a pact saying if we did decide to do something more here that we would approach it with a very high level of integrity and not let the opportunity dictate it because we’re both happy to walk away.
DEADLINE: Sounds like you are diplomatically saying a Season 2 is in the cards, am I picking that up right?
SHYAMALAN: I’m actually not being diplomatic, I mean, I’m being somewhat diplomatic, but I’m genuinely being as open as I can. The one thing I’m fearful of television is its open-ended nature. I’m such an end backwards kind of filmmaker, storyteller, and that’s what I loved about doing these 10 episodes. I knew where I wanted to go. I knew I wanted the fences to come down. I knew where we were heading for the finale and so we could architecture the 10-episodes in that manner.
So, I am happy to walk away, especially with such a wonderful reaction and all that stuff. But honestly, Blake and I do have an idea.
Source: Deadline
Has Fox talked to you about a potential second season?
There are some preliminary discussions, but nothing official yet. It really was always designed to be this one season, so should it have a further life, it’s a whole new discussion. This ending and where it went was always intended to be the end.If the show were to return for a second season, would the adults be part of it?
We are in such preliminary discussions that I can’t confirm anything.
Source: E!
Ben wakes up three years later in a Wayward Pines that is run by the First Generation. Amy tells him that they came, they took over and they put all the adults in stasis, but there’s no timeline involved. Did they take over directly after the events of the Abberation invasion or did Pam and Kate have an opportunity to run the town the way they wanted?
That is for you to imagine. It’s sort of a choose-your-own-adventure. There are many ways for it to have happened. I have my own ideas. The important thing is that the First Generation somehow put all of the adults back into stasis and took over the town. And now Ben wakes up, just as his father did, in this town with a nurse standing above him and, in this case, it’s his girlfriend who is now a nurse at the hospital. He encounters Wayward Pines the way his father did, implying that things change but they stay the same. The violence obviously endured, and is this the way this town should be run? Probably not.
You can look at Wayward Pines as a microcosm for our real world. It’s easy to look at that ending and say, “Well, they’re still being violent and they’re still killing people and they’re running this crazy town. Why are they doing this?” But even in our world today, as many lessons as we learn about war, killing and the horrible things we humans do to each other, we still do them over and over.
Has any of the cast been asked to return?
Not yet. We haven’t had any official discussion.
Source: THR
TVLINE | So a theoretical Season 2 would be Ben trying to overthrow the “first class” brats and thaw out some adults as needed?
Honestly — and I’ve said it all along — it was never designed to have a Season 2. It was always these 10 episodes. So this ending was just intended to show that history repeats itself — ergo the episode’s title, “Cycle.” That no matter how many lessons you think you learn, violence continues and bad decisions keep getting made.TVLINE | And yet we’ve seen some unexpected renewals with “single season” summer shows. Is there a scenario where Fox is looking over their numbers and they’re like, “Know what, we need this thing back”?
There’s nothing official to report yet. As I said, it was always designed to be one season, from a creative standpoint. But if anything changes, I’ll let you know!
Source: TVLine
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