The Sons of Anarchy aren’t completely going away if you believe the reports of an awesome spin-off set to come.
According to reports, series creator Kurt Sutter is now in the preliminary stages of developing a new show set in the Northern California motorcycle club scene.
Details about the project are scarce. In fact, we only know one thing for certain about the proposed storyline: The project focuses on the Mayans — the Oakland-based Hispanic MC gang that had quite a rocky history with SAMCRO across seven seasons. In the original series, the Mayans run heroin factories and are also involved in prostitution. Their cuts bear the legend “Los Asesinos de Dios” — Assassins of God.
Sutter had previously teased the idea of doing an SoA prequel as recently as last month at Comic-Con, possibly as a limited series. FX won’t officially confirm whether the new series will be a prequel or not. Either way, creating a new drama set in the SoA-verse makes plenty of sense for FX as Sons ranks as the most popular show in the network’s history. Last December’s Sons finale was seen by a whopping 9.2 million viewers.
Sutter will executive produce the as-yet-untitled project, but will find someone else to be the show runner and handle the Mayan’s day-to-day management.