Snowpiercer [TNT/Netflix] (**Spoilers**)

JP Liz V1

To end with season 4

pixelburp

Oh damn. I wonder how much that's going to mess with the writers plans, given there WAS an agreement for 5 seasons total.

Sounds like we're going to get a total mess of a season 4 as they super compress two seasons worth of story into a single run.

Slydice

Feels like it should be do-able. The season finale did feel like it was setting something up.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119219825#Comment_119219825

One thing's for sure, now that this is going to be the final season bodies are going to drop. I'd say side characters like Roche might be most at risk, while I reckon even main one of Layton's Ladies will bite it. God knows if Wilfred will live.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Maybe everyone will die. Nice optimistic ending.

Slydice

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119220653#Comment_119220653

I'd be guessing it's either a clean split from the film and have an ending .. or remerge to setup for the film timeline.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119220978#Comment_119220978

That warm spot never looked especially verdant! Not sure where or how they'd survive there.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119222075#Comment_119222075

I assumed anyone who survived there would end up trying to get back to the train eventually anyway. Although that is based on the understanding that the series is a prequel to the film.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119222822#Comment_119222822

No, not technically. According to this ...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118687172#Comment_118687172

It's a prequel in the sense it happens a few years before the events of the film take place, but it's not the same timeline either. So I don't expect things to align themselves up such that the movie then takes place.

ixoy

A lot depends on how far into filming they are and if they've got much flexibility to adapt to being cancelled.

Agent Coulson

Probably the right choice to end it now and gove them time to put an real ending in place.

I can see a lot of Warner scripted shows getting the axe now with the Discovery merger and a move to more Discovery type cheap to make reality type shows.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119224694#Comment_119224694

Couple of articles from the end of March said they'd started filming. Pre covid I think the average show spent about 2 weeks filming each episode, even allowing for 3 now.... feels like they'd be pretty far into it by now.

Agent Coulson

Filming of the final season in Canada has been halted do to extreme heat.

Upto 14 crew and backround actors have been taken to hospital duee to heat exhaustion.

pixelburp

The way the world is going it feels quaint the show posits climate collapse as a great freezing ,(though I know technically the freeze was caused by an attempt to arrest global warming).

Hope everyone is ok though; sounds like the background staff were made to hang around outside longer than they should have been.

JP Liz V1

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/snowpiercer-season-4-scrapped-tnt-1235489313

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120105783#Comment_120105783

I assume by that that it hasn't been filmed? S3 was pretty terrible

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120105819#Comment_120105819

I think it was filmed and they are looking for a new home for it now

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

WB Discovery are the biggest disaster. I swear, it's ridiculous that even having something filmed and completed doesn't guarantee it getting aired anymore.

Don't Netflix have the rights to this outside of the US? I wonder how that works for them, can they just air it anyway?

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120105918#Comment_120105918

The whole industry is in flux at the moment - CW being the worst clusterf*ck

pixelburp

This is ridiculous. Season 4 was already supposed to be the last one, having been shortened from its 5 season story. If season 4 was already shot why scrap it all at this late hour? It must surely have some value as a complete series for streaming. Bizarre and frustrating.

CastorTroy

Considering they're getting rid of some big shows like Westworld from their streaming platform, I don't think they're worried about streaming this show.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120106369#Comment_120106369

Westworld was a big investment that flopped though; I'd have presumed a story complete mid-budget series had at least some value - especially if it had supposedly already been shot.

As mentioned Netflix had international broadcast rights so maybe they'll swoop in to air the last season; they've done that kinda thing before with shows.

Slydice

Feels like cash has tightened up. The Discovery purchase to create Warner Bros. Discovery feels like when the .. i dunno.. when the bank run started?

To be fair it felt odd years that so many service thought they could all exist a thrive in the market.

Probably a bit of dust settling to happen before any news. The money involved will probably be a big thing for any of that news.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I was reading earlier that the people who actually make the show negotiated to buy the rights to it after this decision was made. That should make it a lot easier to shop it to another streamer. Obviously the fact it's already filmed and ready to go too.

Spon Farmer

Does TNT not airing season 4 affect Netflix being able to stream it here?

And if it is still coming to Netflix does anyone know when?

I don’t understand why TNT are not going to air it if it is ready to be aired.

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120106369#Comment_120106369

Why is HBOMax removing shows like Westworld?

EDIT: Never mind - I googled it ;)