“Our six-year plan was Seasons One and Two as you saw it,” explained the filmmaker. “Seasons Three and Four were going to skip forward 50 years. It was going to be right after World War II, brand-new characters, brand-new cast. And Seasons Five and Six were going to be set five minutes into the future, with a mix of actors from the previous four seasons. I was really excited to do all of that.”
He added, “That was the plan for Season Three and Four. They were going to be in Cinemascope black and white. That was always in the back of my mind. Although that was, to me, tied to a very specific period. I very much wanted to shoot Seasons One and Two in color, because I felt there was a lot to be done with the palette.”
“But then in the interim [after its cancellation], even though they didn’t continue with the show in the way that we’d originally imagined, [Jack] Amiel and [Michael] Begler and Barry Jenkins and André have been developing a new iteration of the show that skips forwards in time, and that’s looking very promising,” said Soderbergh. “I can say that I read an excellent pilot, and that HBO has it. I hope that goes forward.”