A Six Feet Under reboot from original creator Alan Ball is in the works at HBO. Ball is also known as the creator of HBO’s hit vampire series True Blood and the writer behind the 1999 film American Beauty, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His most recent work was the 2020 film Uncle Frank which follows Paul Bettany as a gay man who confronts his past.

In 2001, Ball created the series centered around a family-run funeral home in Los Angeles called Fisher & Sons. Though after the family patriarch (Richard Jenkins) is killed in a car accident, his two adult sons (played by Parenthood‘s Peter Krause and a pre-Dexter Michael C. Hall) are tasked with running the business on their own with the help of their recently widowed mother (Frances Conroy) and rebellious sister (Lauren Ambrose). After receiving a total of 53 Emmy nominations over its 5-season run, Six Feet Under ended in 2005 and is now widely regarded as one of the network’s greatest drama series among the pantheon of The Sopranos and The Wire.

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Now, Variety is reporting that a follow-up to Six Feet Under is in very early development at HBO. While original series creator Alan Ball and executive producers Bob Greenblatt and David Janollari are all on board as EPs, no writers are attached to the project at this time. HBO has yet to confirm or deny the report.

Since the Six Feet Under revival is still in the nascent stages, it’s unknown whether it is being developed as a total reboot or a sequel series that picks up with the already existing characters during the present day. If they do decide to go the route of continuation, it will be interesting to see how they deal with the ending as the series finale famously flashed-forward to each of the main characters’ deaths in a deeply moving montage.

The obvious solution to this dilemma would be to pick up with the characters before the show essentially killed each one of them off, but even before the time jump, Claire (Ambrose) and a few other Fishers moved on from the funeral home, so it wouldn’t exactly be the same show without them. For these reasons, Ball and his collaborators will likely opt for a reboot rather than a continuation of the original ending. Six Feet Under‘s series finale often ranks among the greatest of all time, so it would be wise to leave it alone and not mess with perfection.

Source: Variety

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