It’s the query we’ve been asking for the reason that Winchester boys met up on that rattling bridge one final time again on November 19, 2020: When is the Supernatural revival?
And it’s one the fellows have been listening to for even longer, as a result of as quickly as the tip of Supernatural was introduced, followers instantly began clamoring for some form of a comeback. And since Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, and Misha Collins are the verified greatest, they humored us with a few of their very own concepts of how the present may discover new life after 15 seasons.
Ackles, Padalecki and Collins crack up between pictures for our particular challenge (Damian Holbrook)
As reported earlier, we frolicked with the trio final month at Creation Leisure’s “The Highway So Far…The Highway Forward” conference cease in New Jersey, the place we held an unique interview and photograph shoot for TV Information Journal’s Supernatural Afterlife: twentieth Anniversary Particular. (Watch the fellows reply the primary set of fan questions right here.) Throughout the chat, the fellows addressed the bittersweet COVID-related circumstances of their finale shoot, the issue of claiming goodbye to a crew they couldn’t hug, the great thing about their fandom and naturally, their takes on a doable revival.
When requested what sort of format they might need it to come back again, Collins instantly and classically supplied “puppet present,” whereas Padalecki steered animatronics or marionettes. “Like Group America,” all of them chimed in. Jokes apart, Padalecki defined that 20 years had perhaps taken the shine off of doing a full TV season.
“I don’t know if I’ve 22 episodes of Supernatural in me…I believe a restricted sequence could be nice. Like a Gilmore Women-style [revival], 4 one-and-a half-hour episodes that we will shoot in a pair months.”
Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles within the pilot (The WB / Justin Lubin)
And would they need to go grittier, ought to the present wind up being revived on a streamer or cable? Get the type of TV-MA motion they couldn’t on the ol’ CW? Please, these guys have been raised proper.
“I considered this as a result of we’ve gotten that query fairly a bit,” says Ackles, who had actually flown in that morning from Toronto the place he was wrapping The Boys. “What would the present have regarded like had it been on a streamer, proper? And it will’ve been totally different. It will’ve been most likely a bit extra R-rated, however a part of me looks like due to what we did for therefore lengthy and due to what the tone is, I really feel like altering that now is likely to be doing it a disservice. So I may see the profit in protecting it like a broadcast present.”
“That’s the place I sit,” Padalecki added, agreeing together with his brother. “There’s one thing magical about [it], it’s the rationale we watch sports activities extra typically than we watch the circus: There are guidelines in sports activities. It’d be enjoyable if you happen to may decide up a soccer ball and go throw it in, however you possibly can’t. So I like the foundations that broadcast tv, linear TV, put us inside as a result of we nonetheless performed. We nonetheless had ‘son of a bitch’ and we…pushed the envelope a lot inside these boundaries. And so there’s an artwork to that and I would favor that.”
Now, SPN Fam…what would you like? Tell us within the feedback!
For a deep-dive into 20 years of Supernatural, from behind-the-scenes scoop to unique solid interviews, images, and fan tales, decide up a replica of TV Information Journal’s Supernatural Afterlife: twentieth Anniversary Particular challenge, out there on newsstands July 25 and for order on-line at Supernatural.TVGM2025.com.