Posted December 18 2014 — 11:16 AM EST Fargo is going back in time to 1979 for season two, and EW has a first-look at a page from the season premiere script. Expect another snow-swept rural crime drama loosely inspired by the Coen brothers’ film, only this time the action is set in Luverne, Minnesota, where humble married couple Peggy and Ed Blomquist ( Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons) find themselves caught in an escalating war between a local crime gang and a major Mob syndicate. ( A character in season one cryptically described the 1979 case as “savagery, pure and simple,” with a massive pileup of bodies.) “ The scope of the story- telling this season is a lot bigger, it has more of an epic feel to it,” saysshowrunner Noah Hawley, who adds that the earlier time period and even more rural setting gives the show an almost Western-like quality. “ It’s not the ’70s in a Boogie Nights kind of way,” he assures. The script page below is an excerpt from a scene that occurs halfway into the season-two premiere, featuring Peggy and Ed—and a mysterious bloodstain. Click for a larger version. For more, check out EW’s annual forecast issue giving you the scoop on all of 2015’s hot projects: EW has scoop on 116 things that you’re going to be talking about this year—so why not get a head start now? Grab the forecast issue and impress your friends with your newfound powers of prediction.
Have You Read These TV Drama Pilot Scripts? One of the best ways to learn how to write TV pilot scripts, is by reading pilot scripts. I gathered seven pilot scripts from some of the most talked-about drama pilots of the last three years. If you’d like to read the pilot scripts for Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Lost, The Sopranos, and more, check out the 10 Most Wanted TV Pilot Scripts. The Blacklist Pilot Script Jon Bokenkamp is a screenwriter ( Taking Lives, The Call) and he had a deal with Sony. In a interview with the WGA, Bokenkamp said: “ The first time I ever pitched a TV show, I went in and talked to my agent at the time about the show. I said, ‘ It’s going to be so great because in the end it’s going to be ’ and told him what was going to happen. He said, ‘ Okay. First, don’t ever pitch an ending on TV.‘” As for how The Blacklist came about, Bokenkamp said, “ I was kicking around ideas with John Fox, a friend who’s also a producer on the show. He brought up an idea. Whitey Bulger ( Boston organized-crime kingpin) was in the news then. What if a Whitey Bulger-type criminal was captured? What if you had a TV show that flashed back on where Hoffa was buried, who shot Kennedy? A bad guy who knew all the secrets, hopping around in time and place. I spent about three months developing it, coming up with a pitch.” Everybody passed on the show but NBC. At the upfronts, Bob Greenblatt of NBC said Blacklist testing results were, “better than all other 125 NBC drama pilots in the past decade.” Fargo Pilot Script Noah Hawley has written four novels and sold a spec screenplay. He wrote on Bones, and then got his own show The Unusuals. He sold a pair of pilots to FX and then got the opportunity to pitch his take on reinventing the Coen brothers’ classic film Fargo. In an interview with the WGA, Hawley said: “ What I liked about [ Fargo] and their world in general is beyond the mystery.
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