'Wayward Pines' Season 2 Renewal News: New Characters Will Stem The Chaos In Wayward Pines Season 2
'Wayward Pines' Season 2 Renewal News: "Wayward Pines" season 2 is not cancelled and will be back in Summer of 2016. "Wayward Pines" has been renewed for a second season on Fox. Wayward Pines" season 2 is set to follow the events in season 1. Ten new episodes are set to be aired in 2016.
David Madden, Fox President for Entertainment, told Variety that "Wayward Pines" had been a huge hit for the network. "Wayward Pines" Season 1 was the top scripted broadcast series among adults 18 to 49 years old in summer 2015.
The creator of the series, Chad Hodge, will no longer be involved in the upcoming season; instead, the series will be continued by executive producers M. Night Shyamalan, Donald De Line, Ashwin Rajan, and Mark Friedman.
Wayward Pines starred Matt Dillon alongside Oscar-winning Melissa Leo, Juliette Lewis, and Oscar-nominated actor Terence Howards. At the end of Season 1, the series' main character, Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon), died while sacrificing himself to save the kids of the First Generation. Dillon played Ethan Burke, a U.S. Secret Service agent investigating the mysterious disappearance of two of his fellow agents in Wayward Pines, Idaho. Night Shyamalan said that he was happy with how the show ended.
"Wayward Pines" is based on the trilogy novel "Black Crouch," but many fans of the books thought the show felt a bit too rushed after all three books were crammed into one show.
"'Wayward Pines' was a huge hit for us this past summer. We were absolutely blown away by the mysterious and surprising world that Night and his team created, and the twisting-and-turning storytelling that drew viewers in from day one," Madden told Coming Soon.
"Season Two is going to take the suspense, the vision of the future and the haunting character drama to whole new levels, and we can't wait for our fans to continue that ride next year," he added.
In spite of signs, no not the movie by Shyamalan, of a non-renewal, fans are not giving up hope that the books will be covered.
"I'm genuinely being as open as I can. The one thing I'm fearful of television is its open-ended nature," Shyamalan told Deadline.
"I'm such an end backwards kind of filmmaker, storyteller, and that's what I loved about doing these 10 episodes."
Shyamalan told Deadline that he and author Blake Crouch will not disappoint the fans.
"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," Shyamalan told Deadline.
"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. I've been talking with the author. I need to know the end. I'm working with the writers. If I can think of an end and work backwards then I'll do it. In TV I need to know there is an end point."
"The one thing I'm fearful of television is its open-ended nature," Shamalayan told Deadline.
"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."
A new character is set to enter "Wayward Pines." This new character is said to deal with the situation of chaos in the place, as its residents continue to grasp with humanity's survival.
