The upcoming Fargo adaptation may be a television series, but its showrunner promises that it will be cinematic in every way.
Fargo premieres later this month, and we finally got a full trailer two weeks ago. FX is starting to fully promote the new series, and with that promotion comes some featurettes that give us a little bit better of a look at what the series will be like.
The featurettes were released on the FX YouTube account.
“We are in a Coen brothers universe,” Fargo executive producer, writer, and showrunner Nick Hawley said. “This show is about what happens when a civilized man meets a very uncivilized man. It was our hope that we would create a cast that was a movie cast and not a television cast. We’re making a 10 hour movie.”
We’ve known for a while that Fargo was supposed to keep the tone of the classic Coen brothers movie on which it is adapted from, but it’s nice to hear a little more about it. It seems that Fargo will delve deeper into a similar story than was possible in the film, but it will come without the Coens brilliant pen. This seems to be a solid middle ground between the two, and that’s good enough.
“The characters are rich, the characters are interesting, they’re funny, they’re capable of some horrible stuff,” star Martin Freeman said. “People will be surprised by it.”
With all the new looks above, it’s clear that Fargo will certainly capture the Minnesotan essence of the film (most of the film takes place in Minnesota, not Fargo, North Dakota). It certainly looks gorgeously shot and well acted. Will the story be up to par? We’ll just have to wait for April 15 to see the premiere on FX.