“I feel that ship has sailed,” Andrew Dabb, who served because the final showrunner of Supernatural, admits in the case of the spinoff that wasn’t picked up, Wayward Sisters.
Season 13 of the beloved CW-turned-WB collection included a backdoor pilot for the potential spinoff, with Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean’s (Jensen Ackles) mates and fellow hunters Jody (Kim Rhodes) and Donna (Briana Buckmaster) and a brand new era — Claire (Kathryn Newton), Alex (Katherine Ramdeen), Endurance (Clark Backo), and Kaia (Yadira Guevara-Prip). The episode aired in January 2018, then in Could of that 12 months, it was introduced it will not be transferring ahead.
Once we spoke with Andrew Dabb about what may have been within the authentic collection finale ending, if not for COVID shutting down manufacturing, we additionally needed to ask about Wayward Sisters — particularly as soon as he talked about that the pilot script he and Robert Berens wrote for it “is actually good.”
“I actually do want Wayward Sisters would’ve gone ahead. We spent numerous time constructing as much as it,” he lamented. “Bob Berens, who actually did the lion’s share of the work on it, did an incredible job. These actors had been superb. It simply didn’t work out for us. However I definitely assume there have been extra tales to inform there.”
If Wayward Sisters had occurred, “for me, the essential factor was, in some methods, it was just a little bit again to fundamentals for Supernatural since you had this group of individuals, they weren’t going to essentially be coping with angels and demons, at the very least definitely not instantly,” Dabb shared with us. “That was very a lot form of Sam and Dean’s bailiwick.”
And so with Wayward Sisters, “We needed to deal with monsters. We needed deal with form of again to fundamentals. After which the opposite factor that you simply’d have there, which you didn’t have on Supernatural as a lot — you probably did in bits and items — was the formation of this workforce, which I assumed was actually cool and a course of we had began,” he continued. “After which we had been going to get into alternate realities, which, at this level now, they’ve been accomplished so many instances. I’m like, ‘I don’t wish to see one other story with alternate realities ever once more.’ However at that cut-off date, they had been nonetheless new sufficient. We had been like, ‘Oh, that’s attention-grabbing. We may do one thing with that.’ I imply, there’s a cause we had Chuck [Rob Benedict‘s God] destroy all our alternate realities within the Supernatural season finale, as a result of I’m like, ‘I feel we’ve seen sufficient of that. I feel we’ve undoubtedly seen sufficient of that.’”
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