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The Outsider Canceled By HBO

Posted: November 10, 2020, 19:47
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Variety reports that The Outsider has been canceled.

HBO has made the decision to pass on making a second season of the horror-crime drama, which is based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. News of the effective cancelation comes around nine months after the show ended a successful 10-episode first season run. MRC, the studio behind “Outsider,” is set to shop season 2 around to other premium networks and streamers, according to sources.

King Talks TV & That 2021 Will See 2 New Books

Posted: October 14, 2020, 20:12
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Entertainment Weekly has a great interview with King where he reveals there will be 2 new books next year and about his success on TV. Here are some highlights...

About books coming 2021:

There will be two next year. I don't want people to get used to that or think that that's the norm. It's not. But it's just the way things happened. So there is another, but I don't want to say anything about it yet.

About The Outsider

There's going to be a second season of The Outsider as soon as they can get the production going.

HBO hasn’t announced it yet but King know where it’s going...

I know exactly where it's going because I have seen some of the scripts. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. I'll just say that it's really great and a real spooky paranormal element.

His thought about if If it Bleeds could be used as basis for a second season of The Outsider?

I don't think so. It's really complicated because of the difference in the two story lines makes it difficult to figure out how that could possibly be done in the world of Richard Price's creation of The Outsider. But if Mr. Mercedes was greenlit for a fourth season, that would be in the realm of possibility.

King on the new Flagg:

Alexander Skarsgard is a good Randall Flagg, he just knocked it out of the park

The new ending of The Stand:

I was able to bring things back around. I've had an idea for that final episode that I always kind of regretted not writing it in the book — the book's long enough as it is. I can't tell you anything about the episode other than to say that I've seen a rough cut of it, and I think it's fine.

Will There Be (Do We Want) More Of The Outsider?

Posted: April 8, 2020, 08:21
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The Outsider was a big success for HBO and now co-star and director Jason Bateman commented on it.

“I know that they’re talking about it and Richard Price is playing with some ideas and taking some first steps as to what that second year might and feel like,” Bateman told Collider. “Obviously, it’s a complete free-ball because the first season exhausted 100% of [Stephen King’s] book, the IP. So, it’s really all up to him. I never like to step on the lawn of the writers. It’s something that I’ve always stuck with on Ozark. I leave Chris Mundy completely alone and I do my job as a director once I get the script. I chime in every once in a while and offer my opinion, but it’s always for the writer to take if they want and discard if they want.”

HBO has not officially weighed in on whether or not The Outsider will continue.

What do you think? Do we want a second season?


Source: Observer

The Outsider Out On DVD / Blu-ray In June

Posted: March 10, 2020, 16:10
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The DVD and Blu-ray editions of The Outsider will be released on June 9, 2020. Besides all 10 episodes you will also get the following features:

- EL CUCO. THE BABA YAGA. THE OUTSIDER – All New Featurette
- Invitation to Set
- Stephen King and The Outsider
- Jason Bateman and The Outsider
- Adapting The Outsider
- Analyzing Holly Gibney
- The Outsider: Inside Episodes 1-10

Could There Be A Season 2 Of The Outsider?

Posted: February 14, 2020, 22:08
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Here is an interview with Richard Price about The Outsider where he also hints that there might be a second season.

There’s no telling if “The Outsider” will end like the book or on its own terms (further episodes have not been screened for critics), but Price is already planning for the future. He said he was already working on Season 2 when IndieWire spoke to him in January.

“It’s like pulling a rabbit out of a glass hat — of course there will be another [if HBO wants one],” Price said. “There’s no such thing as a series that, if it does well, they’re not going to want a second season.”

Could a second season be based on the Holly story in If it Bleeds?

Thanks to Rick Urban

Andrew Bernstein Set To Direct The Outsider

Posted: February 16, 2019, 09:49
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Deadline reports that Andrew Bernstein is set to direct several episodes of The Outsider.

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Bernstein (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) has been tapped to direct several episodes and serve as executive producer on HBO’s supernatural drama series The Outsider, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, with Ben Mendelsohn set to star and produce. The project hails from The Night Of co-creator/executive producer Richard Price, director-producer Jack Bender (Mr. Mercedes) Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films, Temple Hill Entertainment and MRC.

The Outsider Cast

Posted: January 26, 2019, 01:56
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Here is the latest casting for HBO’s The Outsider:

Ben Mendelsohn will play Ralph Anderson
Cynthia Erivo will play Holly Gibney
Bill Camp will play Howie Gold
Mare Winningham will play Jeannie Anderson
Paddy Considine will play Claude Bolton
Julianne Nicholson will play Mercy Maitland
Yul Vázquez will play Yunis Sablo
Jeremy Bobb will play Alec Pelley
Marc Menchaca will play Jack Hoskins
HettiennePark will play Tomika Collind
Michael Esper will play Bill Samuels

This means we’ll get a ”new” Holly, what is your thoughts on that?

HBO Orders The Outsider

Posted: December 3, 2018, 18:53
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Looks like HBO will turn The Outsider into a 10-episode limited series. Ben Mendelsohn is set to star and produce and Jason Bateman is set to direct the first two episodes.

HBO has given a series order to supernatural drama The Outsider, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, with Ben Mendelsohn set to star and produce. The project, which marks Mendelsohn’s return to TV following his Emmy-winning turn on Bloodline, hails from The Night Of co-creator/executive producer Richard Price, director-producer Jack Bender (Mr. Mercedes) Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films, Temple Hill Entertainment and MRC. Ozark star/director/executive producer Bateman is set to direct the first two episodes of The Outsider and may guest star.

Source: Deadline.


Thanks to Lou Sytsma

The Outsider Will Be A 10-Episode Limited Series

Posted: June 11, 2018, 22:05
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Deadline reports that Media Rights Capital plans a 10-episode limited series based on The Outsider.

Media Rights Capital is back in business with Stephen King, its partner on The Dark Tower. MRC has optioned the Stephen King bestselling novel The Outsider. MRC plans a 10-episode limited series adaptation, and they have secured Richard Price to write it. Jack Bender and Marty Bowen are exec producing with MRC. Bender and Bowen teamed on the series Mr. Mercedes, and Bender is a possible to direct the pilot for The Outsider. King has the option to join as executive producer. MRC will develop the show with Price writing the pilot before they set it at a network.

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