The cast will be gone, the story will be different, and so will the time period.
But the second season of “Fargo,” its writer Noah Hawley said Monday, will again return to Fargo, as well as Luverne, Minn., as well as Sioux Falls – the place of the big massacre in the first season — in a season set in 1979.
As such it will feature the sometimes-mentioned cop career of Lou Solverson, the diner owner played by Keith Carradine. Working out of the Rock County Sheriff’s office in Luverne, Molly Solverson would only be about four years old, he said.
Just as season one replicated more of the tone of the original Cohen Brothers film “Fargo” rather than replicate its story or specific characters, so will season two. He used a specific visual sensibility from that film, with wide lens, low angles, high angles, few closeups and no steadicam.
But he added that he likes to add in the flavors of other Coen Brothers films. In season one, it was “No Country for Old Men” and “A Simple Men.” In season two, he said, it will be “Fargo” mixed with “Miller’s Crossing” and their “The Man Who Wasn’t There.”
Despite all this, he said, “it’s not my goal in life to be a third Coen brother,” Noah Hawley says, adding he has no plans to do “Inside Llewyn Davis: The Series.”
Unlike season one, Hawley said he won’t write every episode of the season — “maybe just five or six.”
It won’t start shooting until the fall; it’s not due until fall 2015 on FX.