“The Killing” creator Veena Sud apparently has a new series in the works at Netflix.
As director Gavin O’Connor (“The Americans”) told Collider, the series, called “Seven Seconds,” is a ten-episode, straight-to-series- project that will “probably go for three seasons.”
O’Connor said that he signed on just last week to direct the pilot and possibly the finale of season one, and that the series hasn’t officially been announced yet, nor has casting started. He described the show as, “a drama that takes place in a post-Ferguson world in Jersey City. Politics, corruption, community, police.”
“The Killing” was cancelled twice at its original network, AMC, but brought back to life for a third season there, and then a fourth season to wrap up the series at Netflix.
Sud spoke of the Netflix benefits with The Hollywood Reporter shortly after the move, saying “On Netflix, each episode is longer because there are no commercial breaks, so the intensity of the storytelling is nonstop, which is something that every storyteller loves — not to have to go to commercial break and sell Tide to your viewers. Then the other piece that’s fantastic for our show being on Netflix is we can speak in the type of language [of that world] — we can drop F-bombs; we can curse. There are no limitations the same way that there are on language in broadcast.”
Storytellers and filmmakers are flocking to the streaming site, and others, such as Amazon and Hulu, because of such freedoms, so it’s no surprise that Sud would stick with the same folks who saved her fan-favorite, “The Killing.” Check back with Women and Hollywood as more on “Seven Seconds” is revealed.
