HBO Passes on Season 2 of Stephen King’s THE OUTSIDER
Mike Sprague
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Today we hear HBO has decided to pass on the planned second season of their hit adaptation of Stephen King’s The Outsider with Ben Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo.
Writer/executive producer Richard Price crafted Season 2’s storyline with King’s blessing, but HBO ultimately decided to pass after hearing Price’s pitch.
HBO said in a statement: “We enjoyed our collaboration with Richard, Jason [Bateman], Andrew [Bernstein] and the MRC team, and we wish them well in continuing the world created by the brilliant Stephen King.”
The pitch “expands King’s universe, exploring the human, naturalistic and inexplicable with a sustained pervasive dread you can’t put your finger on.”
The first season stars Ben Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo with Bill Camp, Mare Winningham, Paddy Considine, Julianne Nicholson, and Jason Bateman.
The ten-episode season is written by Richard Price, Jessie Nickson-Lopez, and Dennis Lehane. Mendelsohn produced while Bateman was an executive producer alongside Richard Price, Michael Costigan, Marty Bowen, and Jack Bender.
The Outsider begins when an eleven-year-old boy’s corpse is found in a park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. But as the investigation expands and answers begin to emerge we’re left to wonder, while he seems like a nice guy, is he wearing another face? The answer will shock you.
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