Sons of Anarchy - big budget American TV series, sort of like The Sopranos, but bikers. Dunno if any plans to play it in NZ?
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The new series starring Ron Perlman ("Hellboy"), Katey Sagal
("Married … With Children") and Charlie Hunnam ("Green Street Hooligans") shows deeper dramatic underpinnings, from a nod to Shakespeare to connections to quality cable shows, with which it obviously seeks to be considered.
That's found not only in casting — which includes Drea de Matteo (briefly) from "The Sopranos" and Maggie Siff, who made a splash as a client on " Mad Men" — but also in its creator, writer and executive producer, Kurt Sutter, who had written all seven seasons of FX's "The Shield" and was executive producer for the final two.
Sutter says he got the idea from John and Art Linson, father-and-son executive producers who had "this notion about doing a family drama set in the world of outlaw motorcycle clubs."
John Linson in particular, whose previous work includes "Lords of Dogtown" and "Sunset Strip," "was completely immersed in the culture," Sutter says. "He had friends and associates who were living the life, and what he offered me was a front-row seat."
Speaking to TV writers at a press tour in July, Sutter said: "One of these organizations sort of opened their doors to me, and I got to see it firsthand." He also said he was attracted to the "amazing camaraderie" of the group — "this amazing sort of familial 'I'd kill for my brother' bond that all of them had that was just somewhat endearing."
From there, he did some book research.
"They began as fraternities, of brotherhoods of guys, most of them war veterans getting together to blow off steam. And in a very short period of time, a lot of these clubs morphed into essentially organized-crime syndicates. And I thought that was such an epic arc that happened," Sutter says. "Then I imposed the sort of 'Hamlet' archetype on top of that."
Sutter's wife, Katey Sagal, star of sitcoms "Married … With Children" and "8 Simple Rules," shows another side by playing the matriarch of the club.
Her character's late husband helped found the club, in which their son is a rising member. But Gemma Teller Morrow remarried the club's co-founder, Clay Morrow, played by Ron Perlman. As the saga begins, Jax, played by Brit Charlie Hunnam, finds a stash of his father's papers indicating his wishes to have the club take a more nonviolent path.
Perlman, who just that week was enjoying his No. 1 box office status as star of " Hellboy II," was a little sheepish when asked about the motorcycle-riding skills he needed to take the role.
"I'm still in the process of learning how to ride. It's not going very well," he said. "A bunch of us had to learn how to ride. I'm probably the biggest tinhorn of all. But, you know, it's the magic of movies. We'll figure out a way to sell it, I guess. It's terrifying. I'm not going to lie to you."
So far, there have been a few mishaps during filming, though he declines to show the bruises. "Luckily all my little mishaps have been little mishaps, and I'm trying to keep it that way," he says. "But it's a thousand-pound bike with no small amount of torque. And, you know, I'm an old dog. It's hard to learn new tricks."
As for the younger cast member, Hunnam says, "I was very fortunate that I hooked up with these guys pretty early in the process, so I had a lot of time to learn. By the time we actually got to shooting, I was really, really comfortable on the bike."
Hunnam says he did research on motorcycle clubs, too.
"The greatest research," he says, "was actually finding a few, you know, real-life outlaws and hanging with them for a couple of weeks and just walking the walk and talking the talk, just learning about the aesthetic and then just trying to apply as best I could to what we were doing."
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