{"id":329682,"date":"2026-03-05T05:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/329682\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T05:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:06:11","slug":"hijack-showrunner-teases-possibilities-for-idris-elba-in-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/329682\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hijack’ Showrunner Teases Possibilities for Idris Elba in Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for \u201cHijack<\/a>\u201d Season 2, which had its season finale on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHijack\u201d Season 2 reaches the end of the line on Wednesday, March 4, with viewers finally getting to see whether arch negotiator Sam Nelson (Idris Elba<\/a>) can save not only a train-load of people but also his ex-wife Marsha (Christine Adams), who is on the run from the same bad guys forcing Nelson to take a subway train hostage on Berlin\u2019s U-Bahn underground system.<\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of the season finale, writer Jim Field Smith<\/a> sat down with Variety to answer some key questions about the last episode, such as the fate of John Baily-Brown (Ian Burfield) whether Nelson and Marsha might get back together.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also spoke about the likelihood of a third season for the hit Apple TV<\/a> show, indicating that while he\u2019s only just getting some space to breathe after delivering Season 2, there is potentially \u201cmore story\u201d for Nelson \u2013 not least because he has only just discovered the real culprit behind his son Kai\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

\n\tRead on to find out more about what Field Smith has planned for Nelson and the rest of the \u201cHijack\u201d cast\u2026<\/p>\n

\t\tDid you always know Season 2 was going to be set on a train?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce we\u2019d come up with this idea that essentially \u201cWhat if Sam\u2019s the bad guy? What if we flip it on its head so it\u2019s not that it\u2019s happening to him again, it\u2019s that he\u2019s making it happen to other people?\u201d\u2026the initial instinct was just to do something that was as diametrically opposed to Season 1 as possible, both visually and thematically. So Season 1, it\u2019s up in the sky, up in the open, blue skies, oxygenated environment. It\u2019s aspirational \u2014 although it\u2019s a hijacking \u2014 it\u2019s jet travel, it\u2019s Dubai, it\u2019s a plane full of influencers. In Season 2, I was like, \u201cWhat\u2019s the opposite of that?\u201d basically, but we still wanted him to be trapped in this kind of puzzle box.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe really wanted it to be a method of transport, and that just took me to train. The underground train feels to me like the absolute opposite of a jet liner traveling at 35,000 feet. And then the Berlin piece came because we wanted him to be somewhere in a city that was alien to him. We wanted to give him as much of an uphill struggle as possible. Because if you put him on the London Underground, you think, \u201cWell, he\u2019s not really out of his depth there. You know, he can hop off at Covent Garden and go and have a chat with the mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tYou shot some scenes in an abandoned underground station in Berlin. Was it creepy down there?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tYes, really yes. It was\u2026 Some of these stations were essentially on the wrong side of the [Berlin] wall. And so they had to seal them off so that people couldn\u2019t board or alight at those stations. And they used to have guards down there patrolling with dogs. And when you go down into some of these locations, it\u2019s like stepping back in time. You can see litter from the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe other thing is, when you\u2019re down in the tube network, you can be walking along a line that you\u2019re told is a line that\u2019s been put out of service and there\u2019s no power \u2026 but there are other tunnels adjacent to that tunnel which are working tunnels, and you can hear the trains. And when you\u2019ve got a curve up ahead of you and you can hear a train coming, it\u2019s terrifying. We had guides with us saying, \u201cDon\u2019t worry, it\u2019s not on this line,\u201d but you can hear it coming and you can feel the ground rumbling, and you think, \u201cWell, any second \u2014 \u201d And actually, because we did a lot of that scouting quite early on, it really infected the show.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJim Field Smith on the set of \u2018Hijack\u2019 Season 2 (Courtesy of Apple TV)<\/p>\n

\t\tWas it really necessary to kill off Kai (Jude Cudjoe) between Seasons 1 and 2?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ll turn that back to you, because this is a conversation we had a million times in the writers\u2019 room. What else could we have done that would have pushed Sam to do the things that he does in this season? Because once you\u2019ve decided we\u2019re going to basically make Sam bad, or at least seem to be bad, and although we realize he\u2019s being coerced, he is still doing some pretty morally questionable things.<\/p>\n

\t\tAre Marsha and Daniel still together? Is there a chance that Marsha and Sam could get back together?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tMarsha and Daniel are together in this season. She\u2019s gone to get away from everybody, she\u2019s not getting away from Daniel [specifically]. She needs that headspace. But of course, the big will they-won\u2019t they of both seasons is obviously Sam and Marsha have this connection.<\/p>\n

\n\tI think there\u2019s always going to be this bond between them, and that\u2019s why we wanted to end the show on Sam calling her and him hearing her voice. Because it doesn\u2019t matter whether romantically they\u2019re involved or not. It\u2019s just these are two people that are intimately connected.<\/p>\n

\t\tDid John Bailey-Brown survive the blast?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAnybody who was on that train would not have survived.<\/p>\n

\t\tObviously Sam and Otto (Christian N\u00e4the) managed to get off\u2026\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOtto and Sam got off before the train exploded, I think is the implication, and John Bailey-Brown was obviously handcuffed to a pole.<\/p>\n

\t\tGiven we find out in the season finale that Stuart Atterton is the mastermind behind both the U-Bahn hijacking and Kai\u2019s death, there\u2019s obviously got to be a Season 3 so Sam can settle some scores. What can you tell me about it? Will it be on a boat?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t really think so much like that. I think more like, is there more story for Sam? It\u2019s not so much like, \u201cOh, could we do it again?\u201d Because, of course, you can do it again. Do I want to do it again, that\u2019s a different conversation. Right now I\u2019ve literally just delivered this season.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf Apple decide they want another bite of the of the \u201cHijack\u201d cherry, the question I will always ask is, what story is there for Sam? Not, where can we do it, but why? Of course, yeah, it could be on a boat. It could be on an e-bike, it could be in the back of a limo, it could be, you know, a submarine. Or it could transcend the \u201cHijack\u201d format and it could move into a different arena. But that\u2019s what I mean. The precinct is kind of irrelevant. It\u2019s more about \u201cWhere could Sam go?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs you said, Stuart\u2019s still alive, there\u2019s obviously beef between those two, so clearly, there\u2019s different routes we could go down. I definitely don\u2019t think we\u2019ll be doing like, \u201cOh, Sam Nelson is now a guy that just bad shit happens to him all the time.\u201d It\u2019s got to be connected in the same way that Season 2 is connected to Season 1. If we did a Season 3, it would have to be connected to Season 2. You can\u2019t just go, \u201cWell, this is just a successful show, so we\u2019re just going to carry on making it.\u201d I\u2019m not interested in that. I don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s interested in watching that either.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 1 and Season 2 of \u201cHijack\u201d are streaming on Apple TV now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for \u201cHijack\u201d Season 2, which had its season finale on Wednesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3288,93,93829,28900,61,60,152214,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-329682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hijack","11":"tag-idris-elba","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-jim-field-smith","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}