Cancelled Snowpiercer’s ‘Incredible’ Final Season Will End Up ‘Somewhere,’ Series Vet Avows
Snowpiercer — cancelled 11 months ago by TNT and in turn left without a home for its completed final season — will find new tracks for its farewell rotation, says cast member Mike O’Malley (who plays former brakeman Sam Roche).
Back in January, when TNT announced it would not air Snowpiercer‘s already-completed fourth and final season, Tomorrow Studios CEO/partner Marty Adelstein and president/partner Becky Clements said in a joint statement, “We love Snowpiercer and believe Season 4 completes a story with incredible talent that will entertain viewers while exploring issues of climate change and class warfare.”
As such, Tomorrow Studios acquired the rights to control the franchise and began searching for a new partner so that the dystopian drama could “finish a great ride with the final season.”
TVLine recently asked O’Malley (creator of the midseason NBC comedy Extended Family) if and when Snowpiercer‘s swan song might see the light of day. “I’m trying to get an answer on that,” he said, noting that Season 4 boasts “incredible storytelling done by our [new] showrunner Paul Zbyszewski.”
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The first three seasons of Snowpiercer were scrubbed from Max not long after TNT bailed on airing Season 4, though they have been streaming internationally on Netflix. “But that entire fourth season is in the can and that’s going to end up somewhere,” O’Malley affirmed.
Season 4’s cast additions included Clark Gregg (Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD) and Michael Aronov (The Americans), while the aforementioned Zbyszewski succeeded executive producers Graeme Manson and Aubrey Nealon as showrunner.
Asked if Season 4 was written at all as a final season, O’Malley told TVLine, “We were actually hoping that we’d keep going, but I think there’s an ending to that where it could be the end, and it’s very hopeful…. So I really, really can’t wait for that show to get out there and for people to see it, because it’s awesome.” — With reporting by Ryan Schwartz
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