Warning: The next incorporates spoilers for Monday’s 4400 finale. Proceed at your individual danger!
The 4400 (season?) finale was lit up by a inexperienced gentle, and this time, it was taking folks from the current to… the longer term?
Wounded and on the point of dying, each Manny and Logan (plus Hayden, who crouched over him) have been plucked away by a inexperienced gentle. Whereas Logan and Hayden have been to not be seen once more, Jharrel and Claudette obtained a shock go to from Manny, who walked into his condo and proclaimed that he’d solely been gone for half an hour and Jharrel had already introduced over a woman.
Previous to that memory-bending cliffhanger, it was revealed that Manny had spent two years sooner or later, working with Sienna Stone to alter the world. However he was in favor of a extra scorched earth strategy and jumped into the inexperienced gentle, inserting himself into the 4400 pattern. Sadly, Manny broke the “tower” for the time journey machine, so Sienna approached Andre within the current to assist construct a brand new machine, whereas swearing him to secrecy.
Beneath, govt producers Ariana Jackson and Sunil Nayar, who co-wrote the season ender, reply our burning questions concerning the finale’s twisty ending, these mysterious inexperienced lights and that enormous dancing iguana. (Sure, for actual.)
TVLINE | How a lot inspiration did you’re taking from the unique sequence for this finale?
ARIANA JACKSON | I really feel like folks, having seen it now, will perceive that we actually did wish to go together with the unique premise of the present as to what occurs to those folks and who was behind what occurred to them. So we all the time knew that was a aspect of the unique that we wished to maintain, as a result of to be actually trustworthy with you, I watched it when it was on again within the day, and when that episode of the miniseries got here on and revealed that it was folks from the longer term who did this, that has all the time caught with me as one of many biggest reveals and simply actually thrilling.
SUNIL NAYAR | Manny’s reappearance on the finish of the episode undoubtedly speaks to one thing is occurring with time journey that’s completely different than most time journey. And as we’ve seen Rev get plucked by the inexperienced gentle, Logan and Hayden get plucked by the inexperienced gentle, a model of Manny get taken by the inexperienced gentle, it actually does begin to beg questions of, what else was taking place sooner or later? And what was Manny’s life sooner or later that we didn’t get to see but?
TVLINE | What does Manny coming again imply for Logan’s destiny? Is {that a} good signal?
JACKSON | What we’re actually attempting to say there’s our characters don’t perceive but how these inexperienced lights work. They’re nonetheless attempting to determine it out. Are these inexperienced lights saviors? As Shanice mentioned, they’ve ruined all the things in her life. I don’t assume we all know but what’s going to occur, what the fallout is from the individuals who obtained taken by a inexperienced gentle on the finish. We hope that it’s clear that that door is open for us to essentially determine extra what this all means.
JACKSON | All such nice questions and undoubtedly one thing we would like to have the ability to unpack within the subsequent season, as a result of it does appear fairly clear that Hayden noticed one thing and threw himself on Logan. So it’s a query of, did he trigger one thing to occur that wasn’t imagined to occur? Or [did] one among them get taken who wasn’t imagined to get taken? We hope we get to discover that somewhat bit.
TVLINE | Somebody we didn’t see on this finale was Reverend Isaiah. Is there hope for him to come back again?
NAYAR | There’s hope for everyone.
JACKSON | We have been actually excited to get to open up the inexperienced gentle [story] and Rev’s disappearance somewhat bit earlier than Episode 13… so we may actually begin exploring the inexperienced lights being again. However once more, we don’t know what all this implies but with the inexperienced lights. And we definitely assume that [getting taken by a green light is] not the tip for anyone. As we’ve explored in the entire sequence, it was just the start for our characters again within the pilot. So it looks like there’s a lot extra story to inform even after after they obtained taken.
TVLINE | What does Andre’s secret partnership with Sienna Stone imply for the 4400 as a bunch? And if there’s a Season 2, are we going to be seeing extra of Autumn Reeser as Sienna Stone?
NAYAR | We hope so. And we’re excited to have Andre begin on a mission, as a result of he’s been such the glue in some methods for everyone… So we expect it’d be a extremely attention-grabbing place to place him in the place he’s working for the higher good with out having the ability to inform all people what it’s that he’s doing. It’s going to place him in a extra distinctive place. And likewise, it’s going to essentially embrace his need to unravel the best mysteries of the world. It’s making his previous crash again into his current for him.
TVLINE | I’ve to ask you about most likely probably the most surreal second on this finale: How did the concept for the enormous iguana dancing to Dua Lipa come about? And was that all the time the track alternative?
JACKSON | I neglect that we had a large dancing iguana within the episode. [Laughs] From the start of the season, we knew we wished LaDonna to create a giant phantasm that might assist them out of this massive, horrible factor within the finale. It wasn’t all the time an iguana. The iguana simply type of developed and ended up being the factor that related to the 4400 and that LaDonna handled along with her dad. So sooner or later that simply grew to become the appropriate factor. Dua Lipa, I don’t even know the way that got here in. It was simply the proper track, and it needed to be carried out! And that iguana simply needed to dance! I don’t know. That’s all I obtained. [Laughs]
TVLINE | Do you recall what the response was within the room when that was pitched or whenever you noticed the ultimate lower?
JACKSON | [Laughs] We beloved it! After all, that was all CGI. That was all our VFX group at Zoic, and so they did such a tremendous job with it. I’ll say that is a kind of moments the place it’s one factor to jot down one thing on the web page and even for all of the writers to be like, “Yeah, that is cool,” after which for a VFX group to really execute that factor. Once we have been seeing the primary pictures of it, it felt like this massive “holy s–t!” second of like, “What is that this?! What have we carried out?” [Laughs] However it was superior. All people actually obtained enthusiastic about it. Each single particular person, I believe, on the crew obtained excited, possibly in several methods, about making this factor a actuality. And folks actually labored their butts off to make it, and it was actually enjoyable for everyone.
TVLINE | How are you feeling concerning the Season 2 renewal odds? Are you getting any form of indication which method it may be headed?
JACKSON | Sadly, we don’t have any indication. It’s a kind of issues the place we’re form of in radio silence, and The CW appears to be nonetheless determining what their plans are. So we don’t know. We’re hopeful, however we don’t know.
NAYAR | Each the studio and the community have been such nice supporters of the present. So we’re holding our fingers crossed, and we hope we get to maintain telling these tales.
NAYAR | Not but, truthfully. However we felt so blessed to have Scott Peters, who co-created the unique, come and direct that episode. Patrick is in Chicago, taking pictures his present, and he had truly ran into T.L. [Thompson], who performs Andre, and form of expressed, “I might like to possibly be on the present,” and we’d already been excited about how can we pay homage to the unique. So when Patrick got here to do that position for us, it was so nice. Positively, because the seasons go on, we might like to hold paying homage to the unique, as a result of that they had such an amazing solid, and form of carry them again into our world in a distinct [way].
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