Antony Starr has gone on to get attention for The Boys, Tom Pelphrey is getting attention for the last season of Ozark, and you created a character like Job, who I think is truly one of the best characters, with Hoon Lee’s performance. One of the stand-out things about Banshee was the incredible cast that you assembled. That really changed the way we wrapped up the series. It was about him finally becoming liberated to find his identity. It was about him finding his own identity instead of the non-identity of a prisoner and then this assumed identity. He never had a chance to become anyone, so I realized the end of the story was less about dying and sacrifice, and more about him finally coming to the end of his journey as nobody and setting off to become the person that he is.
What I came to understand, over the course of writing the show, was that this guy who doesn’t have a name, who we called Lucas Hood, went to prison when he was so young that he never really became anyone and the minute he got out of jail, he assumed another fake identity. TROPPER: I always felt that the Lucas Hood story was a tragedy and I always felt that ultimately his redemption lay in sacrifice. I was pretty sure I knew how it would end, and we made a real pivot away from that quickly. TROPPER: No, I had a very different idea of how it would end and that only changed as we were finishing up the third season. I think those guys figured out the look and patina of the show, but in terms of the tone of it, the style of it, and the fact that you could have fun and action and adventure while still taking your characters very seriously, that was my goal.Īre you someone who also went into the show knowing how it would end, from the beginning? That really gritty, brown aesthetic of Banshee came from a combination of Greg Yaitanes, our producing director, and Chris Faloona, our director of photography. I don’t know if I pictured in my head, visually, the aesthetic of it. Visually, I worked with people who were much better than me at figuring out what the visuals were. I think it did pretty much come out the way I had hoped. I was looking for something that would my satisfy my action jones while at the same time, because I’m a novelist, I also wanted it to have more of a literary bent and was very character driven with a large amount of characters and an intertwined plot.
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I was a big fan of straight to video action movies because you could rarely find a theatrical action movie on late night cable, back then. I was always late night cable surfing for action movies. But I was usually looking for a movie because TV shows did do it. It started from the notion that I wanted to put something on TV that was the kind of thing I always looked for when I was late night cable surfing. TROPPER: Banshee was the first thing I ever had produced, TV or film. When you set out to make Banshee, what was your plan for the show? What were you looking to do with the storytelling? What were you hoping that it would be and did you expect it to end up how it ultimately did? You can do a season at a time and get really lost in it. Banshee really is a show that works for binging. One of my biggest regrets about what was happening with Cinemax was that we had four seasons of what I felt was an incredibly binge-able show and people just didn’t have the opportunity to see it.
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It will be interesting to see how people react to the show when they can not only watch an entire season, but the entire series at once. RELATED: 'The Knick’ and 'Banshee' Are Finally Coming to HBO Max We always took the approach that it was a pulpy, fun action show and we needed to end every episode with the kind of bang that makes you want to come back for more. So, I don’t think we would have necessarily done anything differently. You have to do that thing that makes them want to start the next episode. To get people to binge your show, it’s the same thing. JONATHAN TROPPER: It’s weird, when we started Banshee, there were no streaming services, so we were very much about giving people a reason to tune in next week. With the four seasons of Banshee now available to binge at HBO Max, Collider got the opportunity to chat 1-on-1 with co-creator/writer/executive producer Jonathan Tropper about how Banshee was the first thing he’d ever produced, what he learned on the job, realizing that his original plan for the series ending needed to change, how the fight scenes influenced what he went on to do with Warrior, and how emotional it was to say goodbye to these characters and this world.ĬOLLIDER: If you had done this series for a streaming site originally, do you think you would have done anything differently, knowing that people would be binging a whole season at a time?