In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Orphan Black co-creators John Fawcett and Graeme Manson revealed that fans might see an Orphan Black movie in the future. The hit BBC America series signed off on Saturday after five seasons with its series finale. Fawcett said,
“I suppose there’s always a possibility. Certainly I love thinking about where Delphine and Cosima are going to have to go and the kinds of women that they’re going to meet in their journeys and in their travels. We’ve spent so much time creating diversity in our Leda clones and making all these very different individuals that represent all sorts of aspects of the world and culture and society that just thinking about that makes me think there’s all these other stories to tell. And certainly, their adventures globe-trotting as they inoculate these girls is interesting dramatically.”
He also mentioned that the clones’ adventures could take place in a new medium. “Graeme and I have always loved the idea of potentially doing a feature film. Maybe there is life after Orphan Black. We’re not sure.” Mason added that the movie would bring the narrative full circle for the franchise. “We’ve talked about a movie for a long time. We conceived the concept of Orphan Black in 2001 as a feature film, and we could never contain our story within a feature film, so that would be the biggest challenge.”
Given the layout of the show’s premise and the plot that has been carried out, a movie may work. “Now that we’ve told so much, maybe the parameters have closed in a bit and we could really come up with something to fit into a two-hour type format,” says Manson. “It would be a great challenge, and I think we’d need to take a little breather and spend a little time thinking about that. I’d like to let these characters rest a little bit, but then I’m going to miss them and I bet we can’t control ourselves and that we come back to them.”
