Noah Hawley, creator of FX’s crime drama series Fargo, has provided some news about his progress in developing the award-winning show’s fifth season.
In a conversation with Vanity Fair, Hawley touched on how Season 5 is shaping up. When asked whether a new season of Fargo could be expected, Hawley replied, “Yeah, I think so. I don’t have it yet. I have pieces that will have to survive. They’re not connected. I think it would be good to create an ending, and deliberately come to something, knowing it’s the last one and see how one might wrap up this anthology.”
Inspired by 1996’s Fargo, the Oscar-winning feature from Joel and Ethan Coen, each season of Hawley’s series focuses on a different set of characters in different times and places, all of them within the universe of the Coen film. Spanning from the 1950s up to the 2000s, the four existing seasons have little overlap in continuity. So, while it’s possible that some familiar faces may turn up in Season 5, Hawley will likely be working with a whole new set of characters as the new story will be “set somewhere in the recent past.”
Fargo garnered numerous awards and nominations, from Primetime Emmys to Golden Globes, between Season 1 and Season 3. However, Season 4, which debuted in September 2020, has received considerably less acclaim and experienced a drop of over 50 percent in viewership.
Diverging slightly from the previous three seasons, Season 4 stages the action in Kansas City, MO, hundreds of miles from the Minnesota/North Dakota settings made famous by the Coen film and revived for the series’ first three seasons. The plot of the latest season also departs from those of the past, with the action centering on a pair of rival crime syndicates rather than the bumbling machinations of misguided individuals.
Hawley is currently developing the Alien series. Describing where in the process he is, he stated, “I’ve written a couple of scripts, the first two scripts, and we’re looking to make them next spring.”
Created by Noah Hawley, the fourth season of Fargo stars Chris Rock, Jason Schwartzman, Jessie Buckley, Salvatore Esposito, Gaetano Bruno, Ben Whishaw, Andrew Bird, Anji White, E’myri Crutchfield, Timothy Olyphant and Jack Huston.
Source: Vanity Fair
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