RIP, series
Mesías, V Wars y La facción octubre, las últimas dos basadas en cómics, estrenadas entre diciembre del año pasado y febrero de este y producidas por IDW, no continuarán con una nueva temporada, tras haber tenido sólo una.
El actor Wil Traval, que interpretaba al agente Will Matthews, en su cuenta de Instagram:
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#Repost @netflixmessiah with @get_repost ・・・ Dearest devoted fans of Messiah, I just want to communicate my thanks to you all for watching the show, and for all the comments you posted about the show and getting the message out there for people to watch. It was such a thrill to read your comments and so satisfying to see your appreciation of the story’s nuances. Obviously it was devastating news for me personally to hear that the show was cancelled. Clearly the Coronavirus had a big effect on their decision, but it is still difficult to reconcile this with the fact that the show rated 33 million views in its first 28 days. To put that into perspective, that is 12 million views more than The Crown rated for the first 4 weeks of its 3rd season as reported in a BBC news article: "The third season, which stars Olivia Colman as the Queen, was watched in 21 million homes in its first four weeks.” And that number (33 million) would obviously be more by now. I think you, the fans, all deserve to know just how popular the show really was and I thank you for your support from the bottom of my heart – you all made the show a hit. Making the show was a very risky, some might say audacious, undertaking that required a lot of faith in the concept to succeed. So I’d like to thank all my collaborators, starting with my truly amazing cast that brought an incredible veracity to their roles – Michelle, Mehdi, Tomer, John, Stefania, Melinda, Sayyid, Wil, Fares, Phillip, Jane, Beau, Dermot, Barbara, Michael, Assad, Rona-Lee, Ori, Makram, Siddiq, Dvir, Poorna, Emily, Nicole and the other 248 speaking parts!! To my incredible writers, my directors and DOP, our production designers, costume, hair and makeup, my editors, composers, sound recordist and designers, to our incredible casting directors and our vis FX people and ALL the crew who worked so hard on the series – THANK YOU. What makes this doubly sad is that we just finished writing the final episode of the second season scripts last week! I was so pleased and excited by where our second season took our story! There was so much more of the story still to tell! May Messiah live on in your hearts. #SaveMessiah Sincerely, Michael
A post shared by Wil Traval (@wiltraval) on Mar 30, 2020 at 9:18pm PDT
Hoy es un día muy triste. Acabo de recibir la noticia de Netflix de que no habrá una segunda temporada de #messiah y sólo quería decir a los fans que gracias por el apoyo y el amor. Ojalá las cosas fueran diferentes.
Creada por Michael Petroni, era un thriller sobre la fe donde un hombre que de repente obtenía notoriedad en el Oriente Medio cuando su presencia se asociaba a eventos destacados o directamente categorizados como milagros: se cumplían sus palabras y Damasco no caía en manos del Estado Islámico, creaba un conflicto en la frontera de Israel, y finalmente se trasladaba a Estados Unidos donde se instalaba y sobrevivía de manera inexplicable en mitad de un tornado.
Protagonizada por Ian Somerhalder, la segunda contaba la historia de un científico que trataba de detener un virus que ha convertido a buena parte de la población mundial en chupasangres.
Por su parte, la última era una serie sobre una familia de cazadores de monstruos con J.C. MacKenzie y Tamara Taylor al frente del reparto.
