Official Fargo Season 4 Thread

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Catching up with Fargo EP Warren Littlefield today at the PGA’s Produced By, he told Deadline that season 4 of the Emmy-winning FX series “will go into production in the fall of 2019.”

“(Creator) Noah Hawley is directing a film this summer (Natalie Portman in Fox Searchlight’s Pale Blue Dot), and then in the fourth quarter, he’ll write the opening hour of Fargo, and then at the top of the year, the writers’ room will go to work. Hopefully we get most of the season written, and then in fall go into production.”

In regards to season 4’s theme, Littlefield was largely mum, saying, “We have a year, a city, and a location.”

A year ago at this time at Austin’s ATX Festival, Hawley shocked Fargo fans by saying that season 3 might be the last one for the show. However, by the time the finale aired, he clarified that his busy two-year production schedule on Legion and his film projects were his priorities before directing attention to Fargo season 4.

Fargo is largely an anthology series, though it takes place in the same location, but in different years, with some overlapping characters between seasons. Season 1 takes place in 2006, with Deputy Molly Solverson pursuing the evil Lorne Malvo. Her character appears as a child in season 2, which is set in 1979 and focuses on her father, Lou Solverson, investigating a triple homicide. Season 3 jumps back to 2010, dotes on the mixed-up affairs of twin brothers, played by Ewan McGregor, one a working class probation officer, and the other a parking lot tyc00n. The latter is shaken down by a nefarious corporate invader, V.M. Varga, and the whole affair gets investigated by Eden Valley police chief Gloria Burgle

 

[Ciggavelli]

Production in Fall 2019?

US shows are taking notes from UK television and are waiting years between seasons. Fargo, Better Call Saul, GoT, etc.

I’m not a fan of this trend

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Production in Fall 2019?

US shows are taking notes from UK television and are waiting years between seasons. Fargo, Better Call Saul, GoT, etc.

I’m not a fan of this trend

Trash smh

 

[BlackMafia]

 

[David_TheMan]

TV has moved to personality phase.
In the old days, the studios would have told him either you do Legion and Fargo and give us what we want or we'll take one away from you and don't even think you are going to write a movie and hold us up, you'll never work again.

Now with options on cable and Netflix, showrunners are treated like gods now and he can do shyt like this.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

 

[⠀⠀⠀]

this shyt wont air until 2020

 

[Wallychamp]

2019

 

[FlyRy]

Production in Fall 2019?

US shows are taking notes from UK television and are waiting years between seasons. Fargo, Better Call Saul, GoT, etc.

I’m not a fan of this trend

People are too impatient in this on demand era.

Rushing is how you end up with True Detective S2.

Even Sopranos and The Wire took years off

 

[Lootpack]

They can take as long as they want.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

The first details for Fargo season 4 have begun to roll in.

First up, Chris Rock will appear in the next run of Noah Hawley's successful anthology series which has been described as a story of “immigration and assimilation and the things we do for money” set in Kansas City, Missouri.

He'll be playing the boss of a criminal syndicate who, in order to make peace with another, trades his eldest son having to raise his enemy's so as his own. However, when the rival syndicate leader dies, their truce is thrown into confusion.



The new season will be throwing viewers back in time once again setting the story in 1950

 

[hex]

I'm amped for this shyt but Noah Hawley needs to chill. He got a bunch of projects up in the air which is why this got pushed back to 2020.

That movie he's doing does look dope though.

Fred.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

During Tuesday’s Walt Disney Company Upfront Presentation (covering ABC, ESPN, Freeform, FX Networks, and National Geographic), fans of FX‘s Fargo received two interesting updates on the upcoming fourth season.

● First up, season star comedian/actor/author Chris Rock (Top Five) appeared during the presentation via video to reveal that his character is called Loy Cannon – and that his kids still ask him why he was picked.


● FX boss John Landgraf announced that production on Noah Hawley‘s series gets underway in the fall, and is expected to premiere in early 2020.


It was at the August 2018 Television Critics Association’s (TCA) summer press tour event where Landgraf announced that Rock will headline a fourth season of Hawley‘s Emmy award-winning anthology, as head of a crime family in 1950’s Kansas City, Missouri.

"In 1950, at the end of two great American migrations — that of Southern Europeans from countries like Italy, who came to the US at the turn of the last century and settled in northern cities like New York, Chicago — and African Americans who left the south in great numbers to escape Jim Crow and moved to those same cities — you saw a collision of outsiders, all fighting for a piece of the American dream. In Kansas City, Missouri, two criminal syndicates have struck an uneasy peace. One Italian, one African American. Together they control an alternate economy — that of exploitation, graft and drugs. This too is the history of America. To cement their peace, the heads of both families have traded their eldest sons.

Rock plays the head of one family, a man who — in order to prosper — has surrendered his oldest boy to his enemy, and who must in turn raise his son’s enemy as his own. It’s an uneasy peace, but profitable. And then the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies. And everything changes.

It’s a story of immigration and assimilation, and the things we do for money. And as always, a story of basically decent people who are probably in over their heads. You know, Fargo."

Interestingly, Hawley wasn’t sure what direction Fargo would take if there was a fourth season of the series when he spoke to The New York Times in June 2017:

“I don’t. It’s a big challenge, every one of these — to come up with both a crime to hang it on and a large cast of characters on a collision course — each has to be new and interesting and have a different point of view. But we are exploring certain archetypes that are inescapable on a moral spectrum: There always has to be a Marge and a Jerry and a [Steve] Buscemi and a Peter Stormare, those kinds of pure good and pure evil and moral challenges in the middle. At a certain point, you don’t want to repeat yourself, so the question becomes: ‘What’s left to say? What’s interesting to say?’”

back to back in the day for season 4

 

[beejus]

Only saw the first season and loved it. Missed out on recording the other 2 seasons. Anyone got links?

 

[Nero Christ]

I'm thinking Rock's son has to be Mike Milligan right

 

[BlackMafia]

Interesting premise.