The novel really was about a microcosm: The Sudden Departure for this one family in this one town. Part of it may have to do with a feeling of wanting to go from East Coast suburbs to kind of a more iconic America.'Īsked if the choice of location was part of a conscious decision to include more diversity on the show (which notoriously only had three non-white actors in its massive ensemble cast last season), he answers: I think so, yeah. 'We did look at a couple of other locations, but I think Texas was always in Damon's mind as the place that he wanted to go. So, how did he and Lindelof land on Texas specifically? 'It didn't have to be Texas,' Perrotta says. 14, 2011, and has since been consecrated as Miracle National Park. Post-Departure, Jarden is famed worldwide for being the only town on the planet where absolutely nobody disappeared on Oct. The Murphys are residents of Jarden, Texas, the new focal point of the show as the plot shifts away from upstate New York. Those new facets are represented in Season 2 by the Murphy family: Firefighter father John, doctor mother Erika, and teenage children Michael and Evie.

So, we're just looking for new facets of the world that we can explore,' he says. There's this feeling that there's a big world out there and the Sudden Departure affected all of it, and probably affected all of it in very different ways. 'The concept was always kind of a global one. 'Damon and I were pretty clear about that when HBO picked up the pilot and we had a meeting and talked about what the season was about,' he tells Bustle in an interview.īut, Perrotta wasn't afraid of moving past his original ending. Perrotta knew early on that his source material would be quickly surpassed by the show. And, sure enough, The Leftovers Season 2 is poised to blast right past the novel's final page. He knew when famed showrunner Damon Lindelof ( Lost) approached him about adapting his slim 300-some-page novel to television that his source material had a finite lifespan. Elsewhere on the same network, The Leftovers author Tom Perrotta had no such worries.

The dreaded event horizon was officially reached this past year, and the show will be forging ahead into territory uncharted by Martin starting in Season 6. Martin, who has only published five of the planned seven novels in his A Song Of Ice And Fire series. For five years, fans of HBO's Game Of Thrones have lived in terror of the moment when their beloved show would finally catch up to the source material by author George R.R.

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