Supernatural Season 9 Spin-Off
Supernatural Season 9 Spin-Off
Reports coming from Comic-Con that long-running supernatural show Supernatural would be getting the spin-off treatment from its upcoming ninth season. That’s now been confirmed, with word that a Chicago-set story will get a “backdoor pilot” in an episode late in next year’s ninth season and start its own separate life sometime thereafter.
Supernatural, for those who have so far missed out, follows brothers Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) as they travel round America in a 1967 Chevy Impala hunting monsters, fighting demons and generally thwarting evil – often in the company of a slightly unhinged angel called Castiel (Misha Collins). At least, they do all that except when they accidentally open the gates of Hell or unleash the apocalypse or whatever; but in fairness, there’s generally a totally good reason for such mistakes.
The brothers have variously spent time in heaven, hell and purgatory at this point and endured no end of sibling arguments and gruff, manly reunions, but the chemistry between the cast and the talent in the writing room are such that it all sort of makes sense most of the time. It is funny and scary at the same time, Supernatural is fun to watch and getting better and more engaging season after season.
This planned spin-off is to be “planted” in a base location rather than roaming, and will “explore the clashing hunter and monster cultures of Chicago.” Given the location the makers – led by Supernatural’s supervising producer Andrew Dabb – will have to carefully differentiate it from literature’s resident Chicago monster hunter, Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden, and find a cast with the chemistry of the original bunch.
The first episode of Supernatural season 9 – which we’re promised will be a “free-for-all” following the massive upsets of the season 8 finale – just shot in Vancouver, so there’s some way to go before we hit this as-yet untitled spin-off episode. Next year will be awesome when we get the Ninth Season of Supernatural.
