Lucifer just released a trailer for the upcoming fifth season. Showrunners Joe Henderson and Ildy Modrovich recently spoke with EW about how a season six renewal affected their process for season five.
Henderson spoke:
“It was very, very similar to when we went from 10 episodes to 16. [We were] like, ‘No, this is perfect. If we do this, it’ll ruin everything! Then three days later, you’re like, ‘Wait, how could we not have done this?'”
Modrovich added:
“What we realized is that the last bit of that [series] finale episode was actually a lot of great stories sped up just to give us a satisfying ending for all our characters. We literally lobbed off Act 6 and went, ‘Let’s take what happens in Act 6 in a scene and dive into it. And really explore how are characters end up where they ended up.’ So, that ended up being our nugget for season 6.”
Season six was announced in June and it will be the end of Lucifer – officially. Henderson expressed excitement for another run at Lucifer and concluding the story:
“It’s the story we were always going to tell, but just written much larger and to me [now] so much more interestingly that it breaks my heart to think we weren’t [originally] going to do it this way. When they were like, ‘Can you do one more?’ we said, ‘Yes, but this our last story.'”
Modrovich added:
“In addition to what we’re opening up from that ending, we thought of one giant story that just needed to be told. So that’s what really stuck the landing for us. That was another request we had [for the studio and streamer]. We said, ‘Please don’t make us what change what we have. Please don’t make us water it down,’ because we were so pleased with it and it’s so impactful. Again, everybody was just very on-board with it’.”
Lucifer has been on a roller coaster after having been canceled at Fox after only a couple of seasons. Then getting picked up by Netflix. And now having a lengthy run – six seasons is good. And I know all of the Lucifer fans out there are happy to know they’ll be getting Tom Ellis for one more additional season.
Source: EW
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