Jenji Kohan, the creator of Weeds and Orange is the New Black, wants to see fewer dystopian TV shows made.
And that includes a sequel to his hit Weeds, starring Mary Louise Parker, Romany Malco, Elizabeth Perkins and Kevin Nealon.
When he heard that Showtime and then Starz were developing a reboot of the marijuana-dealing drama that ran for eight seasons, he had some choice words.
“I feel like now that marijuana is legal (in many places) I don’t really know if there’s more story to tell,” she said.
“I think Weeds is over, and I think it would be a bit of a money-making thing, and I’m not involved in that,” she added. Deadline.
Jenji Kohan, the creator of Weeds and Orange is the New Black, wants to see fewer dystopian TV shows made, as seen here in 2016
The veteran television writer has worked on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Gilmore Girls, Sex and the City and the first season of Friends.
‘They can do whatever they want, but this would not be associated with the team that made it, and I think there are many other stories to tell.
“I think Weeds was of its time and it’s not that relevant anymore,” especially considering the fact that marijuana is legal in 24 states.
He added that he does not own the intellectual property, so Showtime or Starz can do whatever they want.
Ultimately, Johan is simply fed up with dystopian visions of life.
“Dystopia is bad for us, it’s shit, it’s lazy, and I can’t wait to say, ‘Enough with the fucking dystopia.'”
“We’re being fed this diet of dystopia and then (over time) we remember this idea that we’ve been given that the future is a burning garbage dump, and then we manifest it,” Kohan said.
He added: “I don’t think utopia is a better story, nothing much happens. But there’s a new word floating around: ‘protopia’, where basically the future is imperfect but we’re on our way to something better.
And that includes a sequel to his hit Weeds, starring Mary Louise Parker, Romany Malco, Elizabeth Perkins and Kevin Nealon.
When he heard that Showtime and then Starz were developing a remake of the marijuana-dealing drama that ran for eight seasons on Showtime, he had some choice words.
“I feel like now that marijuana is legal (in many places) I don’t really know if there’s any more story to tell,” she said. Photographed in 2008 with Mary Louise Parker
“I think Weeds is over, and I think it would be a bit of a money-making thing, and I’m not involved in that,” she added, according to Deadline.
“Life also has many beautiful things, and it is so easy and so destructive to say that everything is shit. I want to urge everyone to abandon that.”
He clarified that this point of view does not always guarantee happy endings.
You’re always going to hate your mother-in-law, or you know, have bad sex, or argue with someone, or get into a car accident, or whatever; the point is that there’s always conflict.
“But I think there needs to be a recognition that there is joy in the world, and there is hope in the world.”