Prime Video’s Merciless Intentions debuted on November 21, 2024, with all eight episodes of the inaugural season. It’s impressed by the 1999 namesake film that includes Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Reese Witherspoon. Whereas the sequence hasn’t but been formally greenlit for Season 2, showrunners Phoebe Fisher and Sara Goodman mentioned how they’d strategy it in a current interview.
Phoebe Fisher and Sara Goodman on sustaining the ‘essence’ in potential Merciless Intentions Season 2
Fisher and Goodman mirrored on the prospects of Merciless Intentions Season 2 in a brand new interview and what they want to accomplish with the story if Prime Video renews the present. The sequence just isn’t a scene-by-scene adaptation of the 1999 film, which was primarily based on the 1782 novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
The characters within the present are usually not those that Gellar and the others performed within the film. For probably the most half, the TV sequence characters are totally different renditions of their film counterparts and don’t share names, similar to the characters within the film are totally different variations of these within the novel.
Whereas chatting with The Hollywood Reporter, Goodman mulled over the affect their narrative selections might have on Season 2. “We’re actually hoping that individuals fall in love with it for what it’s and that they wish to go on this journey with these characters on this world, wherever it’s going to take us,” she stated. “So will there be shoutouts? In fact, we love all of that stuff. However we’re already eight hours into an hour-and-a-half film.”
Goodman underscored the significance of sustaining the “essence” of the characters, tone, and taboo within the adaptation. “All of these issues that made all the earlier incarnations so scrumptious and despicable will proceed, and we’ll make our personal path whereas nonetheless sustaining a bridge,” she added. “There’s all the time going to be a bridge. It’s nonetheless his automotive. She nonetheless has the cross necklace.”
Fisher and Goodman additionally defined that the ending of Season 1 was consciously left at a stage the place the story might proceed, and so they might discover additional the internal dynamics between the characters.
Sean Patrick Thomas, a solid member of the film, seems within the present. The showrunners expressed their want to convey again extra solid members if the sequence continues.