Mayans MC (2018) FOX FX Series – Fall Debut Sons of Anarchy Spinoff
Stars: JD Pardo, Clayton Cardenas, Edward James Olmos, Sarah Bolger, Michael Irby, Carla Baratta, Antonio Jaramillo, Raoul Max Trujillo, Richard Cabral, Danny Pino
In one of the most anticipated spinoffs ever, Mayans MC (FX), promises to be a show that is way more than it’s originator, Sons of Anarchy — still intense and exciting drama, but add the Latino factor, and baby, you got something so entirely different, you won’t miss the “white dude in the room as soon as possible,” said series co-creator, Kurt Sutter, in a Variety media interview. And he recruited, Elgin James, a mix-race writer/filmmaker, and former member of the FSU, a Boston-area organization classified by several law enforcement agencies as a gang.
“When you’re a kid, doesn’t matter what culture you are, and you’re kind of disregarded and diminished, you want a family, and you want to be seen,” explained James at the ATX Television Festival last week. “There’s certain ways to go about that, and the quickest one is obviously crime. We’ve done the same thing here.”
While the current political climate relating to Latinos is at an all-time the most disconcerting and dangerous of this new century, Mayans MC, according to Sutter, “will have an indirect influence on the new series’ storyline. For one thing, the show is now set in a similar community to the fictional northern California community of its predecessor, but this time located on the U.S./Mexico border.”
But he clearly explains that it is, “… not a political show, I do not write political shows, I should not write political shows, but, the same way Sons was a fictitious club and family in a real world, the real world always impacted that show. So, this is not a show that will deal head-on those issues, but this is a show that takes place on the border, and it’s a politically-charged, and emotionally-charged, part of the world, [and] that stuff will have to bleed into the storytelling, or it won’t be authentic.”
Mayans MC series is set three years after Sons of Anarchy ended.
Mayans MC (2018) FOX FX Series – Fall Debut Sons of Anarchy Spinoff
Creators: Elgin James, Kurt Sutter Cast: JD Pardo, Clayton Cardenas, Edward James Olmos, Sarah Bolger, Michael Irby, Carla Baratta, Antonio Jaramillo, Raoul Max Trujillo, Richard Cabral, Danny Pino
Synopsis: Set in a post-Jax Teller world, Mayans MC sees EZ Reyes, a former golden boy now fresh out of prison, as a prospect in the Mayan MC charter on the California-Mexico border who must carve out his new outlaw identity.
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