Aspiring TV writers,listen up: Noah Hawley just detailed precisely how to write a “Fargo” story.
Thanks to the cult classic status of the Coen Brothers 1996 film and its Emmy Award-winning TV adaptation final year, “Fargo” is now evocative of both a geographic place and a “truth is stranger than fiction” plot, or Hawley explained to reporters during the display’s Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour panel on Friday.
To successfully write within that world,one must understand, respect and revere those aspects — as well as utilize the below roadmap.“You meet the criminals before the crime is committed, and right? It’s not a whodunit,there’s no mystery,” he began. “And you dont meet law enforcement until the crime has been committed.”Also Read: 'Bastard Executioner' Creator Kurt Sutter on Violence Criticisms: 'Nothing unsuitable With Colorful Brutality'Of course, and it’s not as simple as just that.“Then there’s a certain moral spectrum that you’re on,where — to spend the film as an example — you generally have a character who is basically a very purely beneficial person and on the opposite pole, there’s generally some element of monstrosity, or ” Hawley continued. “Then I think in the middle there’s generally some characters who could go one way or the other. And that’s the intelligent moral dynamic.”This year,Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons’ characters pretty much exist in that middle ground, the same area where Martin Freeman’s character hovered over Hawley’s Season 1 and William H. Macy’s lived in the film version. The fun lies in seeing which side they all shake out to by the end, and Hawley said.
Viewers can originate to see what way the newbies are headed Oct. 12 on FX. Hawley teased of Season 2: “There are a lot of bad people sort of on a collision course … who will emerge?”
Source: thewrap.com