{"id":297536,"date":"2026-02-14T09:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297536\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:52:23","slug":"the-night-agent-creator-shawn-ryan-on-whether-a-spinoff-is-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297536\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Night Agent’ Creator Shawn Ryan On Whether A Spinoff Is In The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRumors about a potential spinoff of The Night Agent<\/a> have circulated on and off since the series made a splash with its March 2023 debut, landing on the streamer\u2019s Top 10 Most Popular English-Language Series list. <\/p>\n

\n\tSpeculation that Netflix could scale up The Night Agent into a franchise with potential offshoots grew when series creator Shawn Ryan<\/a> in 2024 moved from Sony Television Studios, which produces the political thriller drama, to Netflix with an overall deal<\/a> as filming was wrapping on Season 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen last summer, word started spreading that Netflix was exploring casting for a potential The Night Agent spinoff. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring an interview with Deadline about the upcoming third season of The Night Agent, which premieres Feb. 19, Ryan addressed the spinoff rumors.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s been chatter,\u201d he admitted, stressing that some of the speculation has been off. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere was never any casting thing or anything, that was never happening,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing active. My focus is on Season 4 and getting that picked up. If and when that happens, maybe I\u2019ll investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRyan revealed how close The Night Agent has come to a spinoff.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere was an idea that we bandied about after Season 2,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t fully fleshed out. It wasn\u2019t officially pitched or anything. There were some conversations but nothing came to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRyan went on to praise the streamer for not pressuring him into expanding the franchise.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI really admire what Netflix does,\u201d he said. \u201cThey don\u2019t just say, Oh, something is successful, let\u2019s just rush into a spinoff of some kind. They really care about the creative, they want to know that there\u2019s a reason why a show should exist beyond the mothership. And that\u2019s the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRyan, who received an Emmy nomination for his first series as a creator, FX\u2019s The Shield, went on to address the prospects of a spinoff. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m always working on new ideas. If the right idea comes up for a Night Agent spinoff, I\u2019ll pitch it, and we\u2019ll see if Sony and Netflix are interested in it,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the most important thing to me \u2014 having the success that we\u2019ve had with the first couple seasons of The Night Agent, and now Season 3 coming to premiere \u2014 is I want to make sure that I steward this show in the best possible way. I\u2019ve always been proud about the way that The Shield started and ended, and that that exists in a form that still means something to people 20 some years later, and I want to make sure that The Night Agent feels like it has a proper beginning, middle and end in a way that can stand the test of time. That\u2019s my hope. So spinoff, sure, maybe one day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder his Netflix overall deal, Ryan is developing other projects, which he is not ready to discuss. They do not include an adaptation of The Method, the new thriller novel by Matthew Quirk on whose book, The Night Agent, Ryan\u2019s Netflix series is based.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat was sent to us, it\u2019s a great book, and I hope it turns into something,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cMatthew and I have become very friendly, but I didn\u2019t have the bandwidth at that point to do that justice, so I\u2019m glad he found another developer, and I hope it does great. Matthew\u2019s a fantastic, fantastic dude. Really appreciates the show, really appreciates what it\u2019s done for his visibility as an author.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRyan, who co-developed S.W.A.T. and served as executive producer\/showrunner on the CBS\/Sony TV series, also is not involved in that series\u2019 upcoming spinoff, S.W.A.T. Exiles, developed and exec produced by Jason Ning.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was invited to be a part of that but the details of my Netflix deal precluded that, which is fine,\u201d he said. \u201cI got to meet Jason, who\u2019s running the show. And he\u2019s probably better off without me lurking, even in name only, over his shadow. I know a lot of people who are working on the show, and for the sake of Shemar and the crew, I hope it does really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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