upd: Ы-ы, прикол
. Статья на сайте tvinsider, оказывается, не 100% идентична статье в печатной версии TV Guide.
Вот так в TV Guide:
Jensen, as the irrepressible Dean, also appears in and narrates the series. Dean tracking his future parents lives-in his 1967 Chevy Impala-to chronicle them for his younger brother, though he is heard more than seen due to Ackles role as Sheriff Beau Arlen on ABC drama Big Sky: Deadly Trails.
А вот так на сайте:
Jensen, as the irrepressible Dean, also appears in and narrates the series.
Dean is on a hiatus from Heaven — with his 1967 Chevy Impala — to track his future parents’ lives and chronicle them for his younger brother, though he is heard more than seen due to Ackles’ role as Sheriff Beau Arlen on the ABC drama Big Sky: Deadly Trails.
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И еще статья - уже прямо про актеров из СПН.
https://ew.com/tv/the-winchesters-supernatural-characters-jensen-ackles-danneel-ackles/статьяYes, Jensen and Danneel Ackles want to bring Supernatural favorites to The Winchesters
"Why else do you make a show if you can't work with your friends?"
Samantha Highfill
The Winchesters might take place before the days of Supernatural, but given that there are no rules in the Supernatural universe — time travel, time loops, and extremely powerful snaps exist — there's a chance that a familiar face or two could show up in the 1970s.
When asked whether they'd like to bring some of the Supernatural family to the new show, executive producers Jensen and Danneel Ackles both said a very quick "yes." Although, Danneel immediately shut down the idea of Sister Jo — the character she played — coming back. "From my understanding, her vessel lived in the 2000s," Danneel says. "But we have a lot of people who were immortal. Ruth [Connell] could definitely come back. Who else?"
Jensen's immediate response is Chuck (and we already know Rob Benedict is ready and willing). But he continues, "[Showrunner] Robbie [Thompson] and us have talked and if there is any opportunity to bring anybody back from the mothership, we will absolutely do so. We will write to that. We have names that are on the table of like, 'How can we get to this [person in a way] that makes sense?'" (Jensen's already mentioned at least one idea about getting all the Johns together.)
And yet, if it doesn't make sense to bring a certain character back, there's one other way the show could still get some familiar faces to come play. "I think the fans will be cool if we bring an actor that played a certain famous character on the show to come and do something different," Jensen says. "We were recycling guest stars by the dozens after season 8 because Vancouver's only so big and there's only so many people in the talent pool. I think if we do that with fan-favorite actors that played fan-favorite characters, I feel like we're safe there."
Danneel adds, "Why else do you make a show if you can't work with your friends? If that is at all possible, it's happening."Из текста создается впечатление, что Ровене в приквеле быть, а Роб Бенедикт будет играть кого-то другого (ибо Чак в той же лодке, что и сестра Джо). И тогда первое, по сути, роль, а второе - камео. Хотя, может, это чисто по статье такое впечатление.
Но Дженсен вообще размахнулся
! И правда хочет всех по максимуму собрать.
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О, какая классная и перспективная статья вышла после пресски по "Винчестерам"!
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dean-winchester-the-winchesters-jensen-ackles-cwВот теперь прямо до зуда хочется уже посмотреть
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Юные версии спн-вских персонажей, включая Дина
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Хотя держать интригу аж до 13-ой (и последней пока заказанной) серии - это садизм
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Сканы статьи в TV Guide. Она обзорная, но есть интересные моменты.
https://www.tumblr.com/sexyvixen7/697212624041017345/the-winchesters-featured-in-the-new-tv-guide?source=shareЯ распознала текст:
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BEHIND THE WINCHESTERS
Jensen Ackles keeps the engine running on the Supernatural universe with this 1970s-set prequel series about Dean and Sam Winchester's demon-slaying parents
By Ileane Rudolph
SUPERNATURAL FANS CAN now rejoice. We know you've been missing TVs longest-running fantasy series, but good news: There's plenty of monster hunting, road tripping, rock 'n' roll, sarcastic quips and guest stars from the mothership ahead as the cult horror show prepares to welcome a new prequel. The Winchesters, to the massively beloved SPN universe.
And its in great hands. Jensen Ackles, SPN's beer-swilling demon hunter Dean Winchester, older brother to Jared Padalecki's bookish Sam, Is executive producing, alongside his wife, Danneel (SPN angel Sister Jo), and SPN producer Robbie Thompson. Ackles notes that the winning formula" for a great Supernatural series, however, goes deeper than the details - it's about family and love. "All the demons and the car and the music and the dark alleys are great and fun, but [in Supernatural] it's all being painted on the canvas of the relationship of the two brothers. And for The Winchesters, he adds, were definitely trying to make [a central relationship] the engine of the show.
But instead of Sam and Dean, were driving into 1972 to meet the younger version of their badass parents-Vietnam War veteran John Winchester (Drake Rodger) and trained demon hunter Mary Campbell (American Housewife's Meg Donnelly) - before they fell in love.
"When Danneel and I came up with this crazy idea," Jensen says, "we would have been hard-pressed to find another set of characters that made more sense in spinning Supernatural off. Whether Mary and John are beloved or hated, the audience has an emotional attachment to them."
Jensen, as the irrepressible Dean, also appears in and narrates the series. Dean tracking his future parents lives-in his 1967 Chevy Impala-to chronicle them for his younger brother, though he is heard more than seen due to Ackles role as Sheriff Beau Arlen on ABC drama Big Sky: Deadly Trails.
Wisely, The Winchesters covers both sides of its horror and family-drama roots in its first two scenes. Filmed in and around New Orleans, the action opens in a spooky cemetery where a fearsome creature chases Mary's father, hunter Samuel Campbell (originally played by Mitch Pileggl; his face is unseen here as the role has yet to be cast). Without revealing the outcome, the mood quickly shifts, showing fans the memorable tale of how John and Mary met, literally bumping into each other in front of a movie theater in their Lawrence, Kansas, hometown.
Casting the 19-year-oid Mary and John, portrayed by Samantha Smith and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Supernatural, wasn't easy. Because this is a legacy show, it was important to find actors that would care about that, Danneel notes. Her husband agrees. It was an asset that Drake and Meg had reverence for [Supernatural] and understood the gravity of stepping into those iconic roles."
The spin-off, however, strays from the canon. John begins monster hunting right after he and Mary connect. In series lore, he was ignorant of the supernatural world until more than a decade later, only to become a hardened killer when he finds Mary, his wife and Sam and Dean's mom, gruesomely murdered by the yellow-eyed demon Azazel (Fredric Lehne), the first major adversary of the mothership.
To be fair, inhabitants of both Heaven and Hell have meddled with timelines before in the franchise. "So if you happen to have a character like Dean, who has the opportunity to go back and alter some things to see if it might work out a little bit better for his family," muses Jensen, "what would that look like?"
Driven by a mysterious letter from his long-disappeared father Henry. John finds out his dad is presumed dead and that he was part of a secret society that monitored the supernatural, the Men of Letters. (Sound familiar. SPN fans?) Early in the hour, John battles a demon, learns magic is real and finds out Mary is a hunter who is also seeking her missing father.
They hit the road and search for answers together, paralleling Sam and Dean's trip three decades later. Against his mother Millie's (Bianca Kajlich) wishes, John joins Mary-and later her hunter friends, the skilled Carlos Cervantez (Jonathan "JoJo" Fleites) and newbie Latika Desai (Nida Khurshid) to find rare-book dealer Ada Monroe (Demetria McKinney) in Texas.
Expect sparks between Mary and John, though the timing couldn't be worse for romance. "Mary's thinking, When I find my dad. I'm done with hunting!" Donnelly explains. "When she meets John and he's getting into the hunting world, she's torn."
"IF YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A CHARACTER LIKE DEAN, WHO HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO BACK, WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE?"
JENSEN ACKLES
As the heroes go up against folklore-based frights, well see SPN's retro monster-of-the-week format return. But those vampires, djinns and ghouls are amusing appetizers to the annihilating big bad: the Akrida, horrifying otherworldly creatures that seek to wipe out not only Earth's humans but its monsters too, Jensen describes it as "a bit of a Stranger Things | situation where this alternate universes I beings have found their way through the veil and into our modern world."
While Mary and Johns future is widely known by fans, their pre-SPN selves aren't. Mary, as Donnelly puts it, "is a badass independent woman who knowing exactly what she wants." For Rodger, whose puppy-dog eagerness and 6-foot-3 height suggest a young Sam, the challenge is to show the eventual darkened John as "an altruistic all-American guy," says Rodger. "Starting out like Breaking Bad's chemistry teacher Walter White and ending as drug king Heisenberg is kind of the goal." Skeptical? Danneel teases: "I dare you not to fall in love with Drake Rodger's John!"
Of course, The Winchesters is all about serving the fans-and making new ones. As Rodger puts it, "We're getting to pave the way for a new generation to watch our show - and then go watch Supernatural?" Carry on, indeed.
IN MARY & JOHN'S CORNER
CARLOS CERVANTEZ
(JONATHAN JOJO FLEITES)
Mary's longtime hunting partner, a charming, free-loving, skilled but sometimes unreliable fighter whose family was killed by a monster.
LATIKA DESAI
(NIDA KHURSHID)
The kind and brainy librarian who researches everything about the supernatural world becomes a hunter in training, despite her conflicting pacifism.
ADA MONROE
(DEMETRIA McKINNEY)
A mentor to the young hunters, the erudite bookshop owner with ties to the Men of Letters has the knowledge and tools to help vanquish oncoming monsters.
MILLIE WINCHESTER
(BIANCA KAJLICH)
John's mechanic mom raised him solo after her husband Henry left.
Possibly knowing more about Henrys secret life than she lets on, she wants only to protect her son.https://www.tvinsider.com/1062775/the-winchesters-supernatural-spinoff-jensen-ackles-meg-donnelly-drake-rodger/