‘Man Who Fell To Earth’s Chiwetel Ejiofor & EP Alex Kurtzman On Bowie’s Last Word In Tonight’s Season 1 Finale, A Season 2 & Why “Love Is Blind”
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s The Man Who Fell To Earth Season 1 finale. That’s all we got.“Maybe they’re not a bundle of laughs, but they’re not bent on the destruction of all living things either,” Bill Nighy’s Thomas Newton says in tonight’s The Man Who Fell To Earth Season 1 finale of the Cambodian monks that have adopted him so to speak.That devastation and potential salvation of both the Earth and Anthea, the home planet of Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Faraway propels the Olatunde Osunsanmi-directed “The Man Who Sold The World” entitled episode of the Showtime series, to varying outcomes.Bringing figuratively everything full circle tonight the Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman created sequel to the David Bowie starring 1976 film from Nicolas Roeg, is also built on a foundation of love.
Love across their class definitions between Faraway and Newton, love between Ejiofor’s somewhat Steve Jobs imitating role and Naomie Harris’ Justin Falls and more amidst a geopolitical dash to the bottom by the CIA, high tech and more.And then there was that Bowie song at the end of the as-yet-not-renewed MWFTE.To all that, Ejiofor and Trekverse kingpin Kurtzman sat down with me to uncover the mysteries inside the secrets of the Sonya Cassidy, Jimmi Simpson, Rob Delaney, Joana Ribeiro, Annelle Olaleye, Kate Mulgrew, and Clarke Peters co-starring series from CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Timberman/Beverly.So, to quote Faraway from the stage of the Royal Albert Hall in the season opener and closer, “don’t say I didn’t warn you.”DEADLINE: So, my first question for both of you, from the finale, from the show: how did we get here? KURTZMAN: You go first, Chiwetel.EJIOFOR: (LAUGHS) That’s an
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