Aaron’s new tv show THE RETURNED (based on the Emmy Award-winning French series), premieres on March 9th at 10/9c after Bates Motel on A&E.
Below are some highlights from the Televisions Critics Association Winter 2015 Press Tour that was held on January 9, 2015.
The Returned’s executive producers Carlton Cuse and Raelle Tucker emphasized that they weren’t out to fix or amend the French version of the show. “The starting point is similar, but our show becomes quite different around episode 6 where in the French version it becomes quite genre and incident heavy at episode 8,” said Cuse. He further mentioned that the FremantleMedia French series is “working independently on season two currently. Our show going forward will be wholly original.”
Source: Deadline
Based on the French series of the same name, A&E’s new drama series, The Returned, focuses on a small town and what happens when local people who have been dead for while return looking exactly the same as the day they died. The cast includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Mark Pellegrino, Jeremy Sisto, India Ennenga, Sandrine Holt, Agnes Bruckner, Sophie Lowe, Tandi Wright, Mat Vairo, Kevin Alejandro, Dylan Kingwell, Aaron Douglas , Dakota Guppy, Leah Gibson, Michelle Forbes, Rhys Ward, Scott Hylands, Terry Chen and Roger Cross.
Here are some highlights from panel:
– Executive producer Carlton Cuse says that even though the show starts off the same as the original series, they diverge on episode 6.
– Cuse said that they didn’t watch ABC’s Resurrection (which also deals with people coming back from the dead), because it wouldn’t be good for their creative process.
– “This show going forward will be wholly original,” Cuse explained because there is only one season of the French series so far and they will not base their series on anything that happens after that.
– Mary Elizabeth Winstead said that everyone reacts differently when something shocking happens, so it’s hard to know what the proper reaction is.
– Even though they didn’t mean to cast actors that looked like the original ones, it just ended up that way a lot of the time.
– When asked why people who have seen the original series should tune in to this one, Cuse explained that they wanted to take something that they would eventually make their own. He also added that there are choices made in terms of what happens at the end of the original series, that do not happen in this version.
– “Always call the police. When in doubt just call the police,”Jeremy Sisto (who plays Peter) joked when asked what he would do if someone he knew came back from the dead.
The Returned premieres Monday, March 9th at 10pm.
Source: TV Equals