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'Sons Of Anarchy' Creator Wants To Make A Prequel Focussing On Jax's Dad

'Sons Of Anarchy' Creator Wants To Make A Prequel Focussing On Jax's Dad

Kurt Sutter has said he sees the story as being in 'four chapters' 'Mayans MC' is the second chapter and the prequel would make the third

Claire Reid

Claire Reid

We haven't even had Mayans MC yet, but creator Kurt Sutter has already revealed that he'd like to do a Sons of Anarchy prequel centred on Jax's dad and his return from Vietnam.


In the past, Sutter has always said he sees SOA as being made up of four chapters - with SOA being chapter one and Mayans MC being chapter two -now he's given fans a few more details about how he sees that playing out in an interview with Deadline.

Speaking about what he sees as the 'third chapter' in the story, he told the publication: "One of the cool things about [Mayans] is we do something we never did on Sons. We never had a flashback on Sons, because I felt like it pulled you out of the world. But because of who EZ is, and the way his brain works, it's organic to this show.

"Callbacks will set up that prequel you mention. I've talked to John about it and it'll be a couple seasons in before we try to do it, but that will be the third chapter, but it will only be like 10 episodes. I don't see it as a series that goes longer. It'll start in Vietnam, and it'll be about the formation of the club and then stop after the last member of the original nine joins. That was Clay. That way we don't begin to infringe on the story we based that on in Sons."


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He went on to say: "I think at some point we'll find a way to shine a little light on perhaps on John Teller's manuscript, if the Mayans, if we're lucky enough to continue and then what I would do is not directly but I would use that as a potential launching point to do the prequel.

"The First 9 - it would begin in Vietnam with John Teller and Piney Winston and it would be about them coming back to America and ideally to do each episode have a new member join but end it at the end of that so that maybe at that point Gemma's there but it's before Jax is born. I don't want to step on the mythology that we know but we kind of lay track to the beginning and then stop."

Mayans MC is set to premier on 4 September on FX, so fans don't have too long to wait to get their fix and if it's as big a success as Sons, I think it's fair to say we've got a lot more motorbike-related drama to look forward to.

Source: Deadline

Featured Image Credit: FX

Topics: TV and Film, Sons of Anarchy, US Entertainment