'Sons of Anarchy’ creator Kurt Sutter has dropped an interesting tidbit about his upcoming Mayans spinoff that will be centered on a motorcycle club.
In an interview with Deadline while promoting his new FX series ‘The Bastard Executioner,’ the showrunner was asked about his new biker gang project.
While it was already confirmed by FX that Sutter is currently working on a spinoff to his hit biker gang series that follows the story of the Mayans motorcycle club, Sutter is now clarifying that the Mayans project should be deemed as a contemporary story, not a prequel.
Interestingly, it could also include certain characters from the original series.
“It’s the same [biker] subculture, but it’d be interesting to see the influences of [Hispanic] culture and how it impacts the subculture we already understand,” Sutter said. “I would do a contemporary piece, not a prequel, and place it far enough away from Northern California that it wouldn’t step on the mythology that’s already been told.”
Moreover, the series creator stated the possibility of having crossovers with some characters as the new show moves forward.
It doesn’t mean that there couldn’t be some cool, ironic crossovers with familiar characters as the series progressed. I wouldn’t want to set it too close to the world we already know, and step on that,” Sutter added. “My intent is, over the hiatus I’ll initiate a script for the pilot and take it from there.”
Meanwhile, a ‘Sons of Anarchy’ prequel is possible as well as Sutter shares his plans of developing a series that will focus on Jax’s father John Teller and a younger version of Piney, which was played by William Lucking in the original show. They will cross paths during the Vietnam War, come back home and create SAMCRO.
Furthermore, Sutter also prefers Charlie Hunnam, who starred as Jax in ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ to work on his FX show, ‘The Bastard Executioner,’ although the actor's commitments are likely to make it difficult.
"Charlie really wants to come and do, like, a little arc but, he's sort of booked solid for the next three years, so I don't know if that'll happen," Sutter told Entertainment Weekly.
He added, "But we still have Timothy V. Murphy and I'm sure we'll get some of our Irish dudes that we cast at some point on 'Sons.'
