I just listened today (Thursday) to an interview on Entertainment Weekly XM Radio with the hosts and the writer (and sometimes director) of Wayward Pines.
Here's what he told them in his own voice.....he said they've known from the beginning that this show was going to end. He said IF (and he said there are no plans .....he said he'd say if there was...no plans right now to carry on into another season. Now that came out of the writer's mouth. He is the person responsible for putting this show together.
The EW interviewers asked him if it could pick up next year and he said he there are all kinds of rumors out there but they definitely do not intend to carry this show on to next year.
Then they talked about how the actors were able to give input into this and that. The actress who plays the nurse is the one who had the idea to make them be brother and sister. He said the other actors had some input into some of what happened. He said that the writer of the book wrote some (I think he said 2 or 3 of the TV versions of the show). He said he had different directors also during the course of the show.
Now I'm just telling you what he definitely said on the air to the interviewers. Their show starts at 3:00PM and ends at 6 :00PM.
They kept asking him if there would be something else next year and he said, yet again, "look, as far as I know nothing is planned with this writer and I KNOW I'm not involved in anything".
He said there were a few things that he'd wished (after seeing the finished product) that he'd have done (one I remember is some people commented it didn't flow as well having the wife and son somewhere else while Matt Dillion was in Wayward Pines (years behind, I think he said). He said he'd have liked to have gone back over that and changed it. He mentioned a few other things but I don't remember what it was.
So there you have it. Now who's to say the grubby money hungry people wouldn't leave it alone and extend the thing and have them being 'thawed' out again.
He did say something some of you have said. He said the book was wonderful and if you want more of Wayward Pines you should get the books because they go into depth about the characters and the town.
One more thing I remembered in th interview....he said there was debate (more kidding than anything) on whether or not they should have these people be able to watch TV or that they should have TV at Wayward Pines. Then he made reference to some cartoon show and it would have to be on a loop because it would be difficult for the town to continue to put out shows.
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