#THE EXPANSE SEASON 3 EPISODE 9 SERIES#

Was that at all part of the conversation?ĪBRAHAM: I don't think you can go in and say, I know, let's try to be The Wire. If there are other options later, then there other options later.Ĭould the final episode end with a card saying, like, 'to find out what happens next go to the books?'ĪBRAHAM: I think that would be great because it would get me more money. I don't know if it's something you'd want to do with books seven, eight, nine.ĪBRAHAM: And there's something to be said, also, for doing this part of the story well, and then. And then the entirety of Abaddon's Gate into the back end of the season. We've compressed before - in Season 3, we compressed two novels, essentially a good bulk of one novel. SHANKAR: I don't know if we'd want to do that. I mean, it's either 45 episodes long, or it's a very compressed version of that story - could you do that?įRANCK: I don't know, that there is a way to gracefully do that. SHANKAR: Season 6 would have to be about 45 episodes long. But you don't know when you're doing it.īut I mean, I guess the big question is, how closely will the events of the final book parallel the events in the finals episodes?įRANCK: Not at all, because we're ending the show in Season 6, which is book six, and the final book is book nine. We were hopeful, and when we did get a Season 6, now we get to pay off a lot of stuff we built into Season 5. When we were writing Season 5, we had no idea whether we would even ever get a Season 6. And actually, getting that next season order before the current season has aired is actually a real luxury, it's really nice. You have to operate under the assumption you'll get another season, but you generally don't get that order much earlier than we got this one. So, I mean, most of the time, at least in my experience now after doing this for six years, you never know that you're getting another season. At what point in writing Season 5 did you know that that was where you were going to aim for?ĭANIEL ABRAHAM: We didn't get our Season 6 order until we were almost done with post on Season 5. So another big thing that's come out is that you're ending with Season 6. But yeah, we didn't know we were going to have the weekly pattern this year. I think their analytics are like, if people stick around for those first three, then they tend to watch the whole season. The first three episodes for streamers are typically very important. SHANKAR: We didn't actually know that it was going to drop with this pattern when we were constructing the season, so it just ended up being a very natural thing to do. I mean, in terms of constructing the season when you were writing, were you conscious of that being the release strategy? They also reveal what it was like to work with Thomas Jane as a director on Episode 3 of the season (and address whether or not Miller is really gone for good this time).

#THE EXPANSE SEASON 3 EPISODE 9 SERIES#

Below, Shankar, Abraham, and Franck reveal why they're excited about the show's weekly rollout this time, how the Season 6 news affects their storytelling plans - especially in connection to the book series - and why they wanted to begin Season 5 by spreading out the crew for their own individual breakout stories.

The story of the disparate men and women struggling to survive in a far-off future that sometimes feels too familiar to our present is a rich and complicated one, and no, the executive producers don't mind at all if you compare it to The Wire as a result. Corey), as well as showrunner Naren Shankar, have weathered the show's dramatic history for years now - from being canceled by Syfy after Season 3, to being revived by Amazon for Season 4, to now working up to the planned conclusion in Season 6.

Writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (who wrote the source material as novels under the pen name James S.A. The gentlemen behind The Expanse are, as you'll see below, delightfully frank about what it's been like to produce five seasons of the epic sci-fi drama.

The expanse season 3 episode 9