in an interview with Decider<\/a>, played coy about whether or not the show will move forward, saying \u201cWithout giving away everything about the about the show, I think it\u2019s always nice to be able to potentially peer forward into the future,\u201d highlighting that the door had been left open for more stories.<\/p>\nThough Creasy has now wrapped up his story with Poe (by the skin of his teeth) and the unlikely ensemble of allies gained throughout the season, his personal turmoil wasn\u2019t fully resolved. His call from the CIA highlighted as much, that there are still people he needs to confront if he\u2019s to move forward. All signs point to a second season revolving around a revisitation of John Creasy\u2019s initial trauma as shown in the first episode, confronting the people responsible for the death of his team in Mexico City. So, expect an exploration of conspiracy and corruption in Mexico, as opposed to Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n
\u201cFlashes of the old Creasy\u201d: What the cast and crew are saying<\/p>\n
While we wait for the official green light, the series\u2019 creative team is already hinting at how John Creasy will evolve in a potential second season. In an interview with Netflix breaking down the season 1 finale, Abdul-Mateen expressed excitement at exploring this pre-trauma era of the character. \u201cI would like to see some flashes of the old Creasy before the incident,\u201d the actor said. \u201cI would like to see him more in his element in a charming type of way, because he\u2019s definitely got that to him, but he also has this dangerous quality that I think is important for Creasy to keep.\u201d<\/p>\n
Showrunner Kyle Killen also noted that Creasy\u2019s worldview has fundamentally shifted. Throughout the first season, Creasy viewed people as \u201cpuzzles\u201d to excuse his inability to get close to them. After watching the villainous Tappen operate with that same detached, geopolitical sociopathy, Creasy realizes that such a mindset is \u201ctoxic for your soul.\u201d Going into Season 2, fans can expect a Creasy who is no longer running from connection.<\/p>\n
Will Poe return?<\/p>\n
Season 1 ends with Poe safely living with her grandmother, finally finding a way to look at her past without letting regret swallow her whole. Killen told Netflix that Creasy and Poe\u2019s bond worked so well because \u201cshe\u2019s turning into him,\u201d suffering from the exact same flavor of PTSD that sidelined Creasy before the events of the series. While Creasy\u2019s mission points toward Mexico City, his newfound role as a father figure to Poe gave him \u201ca reason to live,\u201d according to Abdul-Mateen. Even if Poe isn\u2019t caught in the direct line of fire next season, it is highly likely she will remain Creasy\u2019s anchor back home.<\/p>\n
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What about the rest of the team?<\/p>\n
Creasy and Poe\u2019s band of allies, including the cab driver Melo (Alice Braga) and her friends from the favelas, ended the season as national heroes, credited with halting the Brazilian president\u2019s conspiracy to secure more power through the false flag operation of the condominium bombing. In the final episode Melo decides to stay in Rio as opposed to her initial plans to leave with her daughter, so while it\u2019s possible that these characters may return in some capacity, a new cast of allies seems more likely.<\/p>\n
More of the books!<\/p>\n
Man on Fire\u00a0is, of course, the first in a series of novels by the writer known as A.J. Quinnell (a pen name) \u2013 just one of five, in fact.\u00a0Part of the pitch of this particular take on Man on Fire is that it also partially adapts the sequel novel, The Perfect Kill, and there\u2019s more material to work from still. That includes 1993\u2019s The Blue Ring, set in the Mediterranean, where Creasy takes on another criminal cartel (apparently, also Satanists) from which the book gets its name. There\u2019s Black Horn (1994), which takes him through Zambia and Zimbabwe and a criminal connection to Hong Kong, and finally Message From Hell\u00a0(1996), where Creasy travels to Vietnam and Cambodia and finds himself the subject of someone else\u2019s revenge mission. That\u2019s to say that there are many directions in which a follow-up season of Man on Fire could go, both in terms of plot and location.<\/p>\n
Given that the series takes a little more creative license with the details, like moving the plot to Rio and changing the subjects of the attempted murder and kidnapping, it\u2019s unlikely that any of this will be a 1:1 adaptation, especially as the context of the Quinnell books is quite different.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll keep this article updated in the coming weeks with anything new said by the cast and crew plus all the viewership data as and when it comes in. Did you enjoy Man on Fire? Do you want it to come back for season 2? Let us know in the comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAN ON FIRE. (L to R) Billie Boullet as Poe Rayburn and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as John Creasy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-431110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431110","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=431110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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