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02.11.2022 - 23:45 / deadline.com
Part 1 of the fourth and final season of Manifest will finally drop November 4 on Netflix. Here, creator Jeff Rake talks about what to expect from the first 10 episodes, why each one remains the standard broadcast length, and whether we’ll ever learn who (or what) is the source of all those mysterious “callings.”
DEADLINE: You may not have gotten your six full seasons, but is this still your happy ending?
JEFF RAKE: It’s like a happy ending. Twenty episodes turned out to be plenty for us to tell our complete story. I have my story points, my flags in the sand, and I carried them into the new writers’ room. You look at your Zoom board and your flags and … you’ve got 20 episodes! Twenty turned out to be more than enough. We’re telling the same story we were always planning to tell. It’s just a little more concise, a little more packed. Each episode is a little bit more packed with information, which I think is a win for the audience. It just makes each episode more dense with excitement and action and relationship stories and mythology. It’s been incredibly exciting and gratifying. And when I heard that it was two blocks of 10 episodes, that was great news to me because in my mind, that’s effectively two seasons. It allows me to put a big, season-ending cliffhanger right in the middle at the end of [the first] 10, which is exciting for the viewers and fun for us as writers. It was a great victory.
DEADLINE: How many writers were you able to hire?
RAKE: I was able to keep all of my writers but there was a slight adjustment. We lost one or two and were able to replace them. So I had nine and I still ended up with nine.
DEADLINE: You are on Netflix now with no ads. Why did you keep the episode the same, standard
How will Netflix open up its loaded calendar year of releases in 2023? From the looks of things, with a color-coded bang.
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