Into The Badlands

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BY KAREN ROUGHT | EDITED BY BRANDI DELHAGEN | 11:00 AM EST, FEBRUARY 13, 2019
‘Into the Badlands’ fans fight for renewal with #SaveTheBadlands campaign
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Following the Into the Badlands cancellation, fans of the AMC series are trying to save the show.

It’s always difficult when a show that’s been a staple in your life gets cancelled. Not only is there the profound sense of loss that comes with the idea you won’t be able to watch your favorite characters get up to their usual shenanigans, but if the creators didn’t have a chance to give you a proper ending, it can leave an even more bitter taste in your mouth.

On the upside, as we’ve seen with Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Lucifer (plus countless others), the end isn’t always the end. Other networks or streaming services have taken a chance on cancelled shows, sometimes to give them a new permanent home and sometimes to give them the ending they deserve.

That’s what Into the Badlands fans are hoping will happen following the creation of their #SaveTheBadlands campaign. Badlands fan CoolGuyJ has a great breakdown of what fans of the show are hoping to accomplish and what everyone can do to help the movement gain attention, which will hopefully lead to renewal.

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Hey fellow Badlanders!
Please make sure to join our SaveTheBadlands campaign. How to join? Make one or more tweet about ITB everyday with just the hashtags #IntoTheBadlands & #SaveTheBadlands
So spread the word to all other Badlanders to join our cause!

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#0. The purpose of this campaign is get the attention of other Networks or streaming service providers (such as Netflix, or Amazon) and have one of them pick up Into The Badlands for season 4 and onwards, by using two different stat keeping algorythms to our advantage.

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Namely, Neilsen ratings for social media and Twitter's internal 'trending' numbers.

#1. As the campaign title states, the keywords that we're looking to focus on and really start trending are the following: #SaveTheBadlands and #IntoTheBadlands.

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#2. In your tweet only use #SaveTheBadlands and #IntoTheBadlands. Don't add any other #'s or @ mentions. More than two hashtags or any @'s included in your tweet will flag it as a 'bot' tweet and will not be counted.

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#3. Try to keep the tweet as short and succinct as possible (reason is, we don't wanna burden the person seeing the tweet with too much reading).

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#4. Be creative with your tweet. You can attach following to your tweet for the visual appeal:

- pics/gifs/clip of ITB episode.
- Fan art you've drawn
- Photo showing anything else you've made/done regarding Badlands.

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Also, with the tweet itself, you can choose to use a memorable quote from an episode.

#5. Make a #SaveTheBadlands tweet as often as possible, though follow these steps:

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- Do not make the same tweet/retweet your own tweet, over and over again. Instead, make new (different) #SaveTheBadlands tweets as often as possible (everyday is good!)
- Just because the episodes are no longer airing, it doesn't mean you should stop tweeting. Keep them going!)

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- Number of people tweeting affects the nielsen ratings, and the time and the hashtags used affects the trends.

So, here are hypothetical examples of how to do #SaveTheBadlands tweets:

Example 1) We need more #IntoTheBadlands #SaveTheBadlands

- Short and to the point.

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Example 2) I didn¡¯t come here to dwell on the past. I want to discuss the future. #IntoTheBadlands #SaveTheBadlands

- Using the Widow's season 1 quote for added flare, creativity.

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I'd like to emphasize, that this is, OUR FINAL CHANCE TO SAVE "INTO THE BADLANDS." If we fail on this, it's all over (Badlands is gone, and there's no coming back).

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So, if you're really serious about saving Badlands from this point of no return, participate in this #SaveTheBadlands campaign.

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Will there be an ‘Into the Badlands’ season 4?

As of right now, the answer to that question is no. AMC cancelled the show and the network will not air any subsequent episodes after the final eight have been released, starting March 24.

However, that could change if the #SaveTheBadlands campaign is successful. With enough outcry from fans and traction on social media, another network or streaming service could see Into the Badlands as a valuable and profitable addition to their lineup. The show would fit in well on a network like Syfy or on a platform like Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon.

While we shouldn’t get our hopes up that Into the Badlands will be saved (even though it does happen, it’s rare to get a renewal), we also shouldn’t stop fighting.

If you’ve seen even one or two episodes of this show, you’ll know how rich the universe is and how incredible the cast and crew are. The cinematography, the costumes, and the fight sequences make Into the Badlands stand out against other series.

Here’s to hoping we can #SaveTheBadlands so everyone can enjoy this show just a little bit longer.

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‘Into the Badlands’: Co-Creator & New Photos Offer Emotional Look at Series’ End
Exclusive: One of current TV's most original series is planning to go out with a kick, punch, and a bang.
Liz Shannon Miller
Feb 21, 2019 11:00 am
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It was announced this month that when the third season of the AMC martial arts drama “Into the Badlands” returns March 24, it’ll be for eight final episodes that will bring the story to a close — for the most part.

But as the first-look photos below show, there’s a lot of action in store before the end. Co-creator Al Gough told IndieWire, “It really builds on the first half of Season 3… A disparate group of people coming together against a common foe. There’s definitely sort of a ‘Magnificent Seven’ kind of vibe to it as well as the season progresses: At the beginning, everybody’s been kind of blown apart. And then slowly through the course of the season, the Widow goes on her own emotional journey, Sunny and Bajie go on their emotional journey. It’s ultimately leading everyone to regroup and reconnect. They put their differences aside to face off against the ultimate threat.”


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Alongside co-creator Miles Millar, Gough has shepherded the action-packed show about life in a post-apocalyptic world, where society has devolved into various fiefdoms ruled by barons, and the lack of guns doesn’t mean a lack of violence. But while “Badlands” has always featured jaw-dropping martial arts sequences, brought to life by the Hong Kong-trained team of stunt performers and fight choreographers, Gough noted that in the writers’ room, “When you have these sort of large fantasy worlds and everybody’s, you know, kung fu fighting, it has to be grounded in an emotional stories and relatable stories.”

He added, “What we always tried to do, even with this crazy world that we’ve created, is make sure that the characters feel like they’re grounded in emotion that you can understand and relate to.”

To Gough, Sunny’s (Daniel Wu) journey began in Season 1 as “the guy who’s great at his job, who’s reached a certain age and goes, ‘I don’t want to do this for the rest of my life. No, I want to settle down and have a family,’ and in this world that he’s not allowed to do that.”

Meanwhile, Gough described the Widow (Emily Beecham) as “the upstart who comes into this and basically wants to shake up the system. She’s [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] or any politician who comes in and really wants to shake it up.”


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While the emotion is present, Gough does promise that the last eight episodes won’t skimp on the action, even after the sprawling war scene that dominated the colossal midseason finale. “I can tell you there are a couple of epic battles to come that, that even surpass that one. It was definitely an amazing season. It was 16 episodes and the fight team shot for like, I want to say, 120 days. They shot 40 fights for 16 episodes over nine months.”

The series’ action scenes are legendary for the care put into them, but Gough said, “We had a rule in the writer’s room where we’d ask, why are we fighting? And if we’re fighting because we’re trying to solve a plot point, you can’t do that. You have to fight for the fights to be for compelling emotional reasons. Because they’re expensive and hard to do, so you can’t just use them to patch the plot holes.”

Along with these photos comes the poster for the final episodes, specifically the below striking image created by the AMC marketing team, which Gough said he and Millar loved immediately when they first saw it.



“In a show with so much kinetic energy, whether it’s the fights and the fury, there is just something really quietly poetic about that image that we just love,” he said. “Because with Sunny there’s always been a stillness to him and, and the quiet even as the world swirls around him. It’s always the intimate and the epic, and that poster, for us, really sold what these final episodes are going to bring.”

Gough said that the writers had been aware that there was a possibility of Season 3 being the last season, and so they plotted it with the desire to drive towards “a conclusion that was very epic, and very emotional. I think that’s what we really tried to do, so that fans who have been going on this journey with us for four years, you know, felt that they had a satisfactory end to the story.”

This doesn’t mean that every plot thread will be wrapped up at the end: “We left some back doors open — we’ve always known one of the things the story ends with, but there were obviously doors that we left ourselves open that we could go into in a Season 4. You always leave a few escape hatches in any finale. This story definitely has a conclusion, but it doesn’t mean that the world has had stopped and everybody’s packing our bags and gone home.”


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While he didn’t offer plot specifics about what to expect, beyond the aforementioned showdown with the season’s ultimate big bad, Gough did say that the ending would contain a “hopeful note. If you look at Miles’ and my work, even in a show like this, which has a lot of moral gray areas, we always tried to strike a hopeful tone. The world can get better. It doesn’t mean that people won’t go through a lot, but I don’t think we’re nihilistic people by nature.”

That said, “I don’t think the ending will be what people expect.”

There’s a chance the world of “Into the Badlands” could continue in the form of novels, comics, or even an animated series; Gough says that the producers are in conversations about such ideas with the studio, but are focused on releasing the final episodes for now. “Those are things that we would love to actively explore,” he said.

After all, over three seasons this world of Clippers and Barons and magical powers has truly become its own story universe, one which Gough takes great pride in. “The best compliment I get is when people are like, ‘Wait, this isn’t based on a graphic novel or a book? It feels like there are many stories you could tell in that world, you know, that go beyond just what you’re seeing on your television set.”

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In the meantime, “Into the Badlands” begins its final run of episodes on Sunday, March 24 on AMC. Check out more first look photos below.


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AMC sent me screeners for the final 8 eps. The platform is a bit choppy and watermark-protected with my name and email. I'm two eps in and binging it. The Widow pic above is a massive ep2 spoiler.

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I got together with Daniel Wu last week for a final INTO THE BADLANDS interview. I'll drop that with the show finale.

Tune in tonight - Season 3: episode 13 : Black Lotus, White Rose

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Into the Badlands Casts Daughter of Martial Arts Legend as Sunny's Sister
BY NICHOLAS RAYMOND – ON APR 15, 2019 IN SR ORIGINALS



Sunny's sister, Kannin, made her first appearance on Into the Badlands in the latest episode, played by Chinese-American actress and former Olympic gymnast Eugenia Yuan. Interestingly, Yuan has deep connections to the martial arts genre, and not just through her own work in movies. Yuan is the daughter of Cheng Pei-pei, a martial arts legend known to many as the "Queen of Swords", and the first major female martial arts star.

Sunny's sister is one of the season's most important mysteries. Earlier in Into the Badlands season 3, Sunny was told that he had a sister named Kannin who helped him escape from Azra several years ago. Despite his efforts to learn more about her, Sunny has been unable to find out what happened to her after Azra was destroyed by the Black Lotus. After being captured by the Black Lotus in "Black Lotus, White Rose", Sunny finally reunites with his sister, who has been a member of the secret cult since she was recruited as a child.

The actress who plays Kannin is no stranger to the martial arts genre. Eugenia Yuan has appeared in a handful of martial arts films, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny and The Man with the Iron Fists 2. Her mother, on the other hand, is a kung fu icon who starred in dozens of martial arts movies in the 1960s and '70s.



Chinese actress Cheng Pei-pei rose to stardom in 1966 with her role as Golden Swallow in King Hu's Come Drink with Me. In Come Drink with Me, Cheng Pei-pei's Golden Swallow is a one-woman army who effortlessly wipes out a large number of swordsmen in an effort to rescue her brother. The film is widely regarded as one of the best and most influential kung fu films of all-time. Come Drink With Me served as the inspiration for Ang Lee's Academy Award-winning classic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which featured Cheng Pei-pei as the villain, Jade Fox. At 72, the actress is still active in the industry, and will next appear in Disney's Mulan in 2020.

Her work is credited with revolutionizing the martial arts genre. Before Come Drink with Me, kung fu films typically featured male actors in the lead roles. Cheng went on to play the main character in several films in the years that followed, including The Lady Hermit, The Jade Raksha, The Lady of Steel, and several more. Over the years, her warrior woman image earned her the title of "Queen of Swords". Her work in the industry has also set the standard for other female martial arts stars, such as Michelle Yeoh. The link between Into the Badlands' Eugenia Yuan and this martial arts legend is easy to miss, but it provides a fun connection between the AMC series and a legendary pioneer of kung fu cinema.

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AMCs Into The Badlands has been cancelled after 3 Epic seasons.
This show is most diverse and creative dystopian/martial arts show out there, just massively under-promoted by AMC in favour of it's undead fetish.
I cannot stress enough the way this massively diverse show creates bonds between it's fans, the cast and the crew. Always working together to create an awesome experience for all.
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‘Into the Badlands’: Creators Explain Their Plans for ‘Deadwood’-esque Spinoff
Al Gough and Miles Millar wrote the ending to their series hoping for a chance at a follow-up down the road.
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May 9, 2019 5:59 pm
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[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for the series finale of “Into the Badlands.”]

Imagine “Deadwood,” but with kung fu. That was the pitch “Into the Badlands” creators Al Gough and Miles Millar made for a potential spinoff for their fan favorite series, which aired its final episode this week.

Gough and Millar learned during production on the first half of Season 3 that this would be the final season of their complex and fascinating post-apocalyptic martial arts drama, which concluded Monday after an epic battle featuring the show’s primary characters. But the creators had plans for a spinoff, which led to the events of the series finale, in which Sunny’s baby Henry survives and the Widow is with child.

“The spinoff would have jumped probably 20 years into the future and it would have been following The Widow and Gaius’s daughter and Henry as young people,” Gough told IndieWire. The project was developed with AMC before ultimately being put aside. “And Bajie (Nick Frost) would have still been around acting as sort of the mentor character. It was more like a kung-fu Western, is how we described it.”

Added Gough, “Bajie would kind of be the combination of sort of sheriff and the mayor and running this town, and obviously, the big threat coming in was that more and more people were getting weapons.”

That follow-up, sadly, probably won’t happen now, but it’s fascinating to consider, especially how it would have incorporated “Badlands'” big series finale moment — the introduction of guns into this feudal land.


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On one level, guns would have been necessary for the Western element — “you couldn’t really do a traditional Western [without them],” Millar said — and also adding guns would have given the spinoff “its own thing that would make it distinctive from ‘Into the Badlands.'”

“It was really covering the ‘whys’ of guns and how that was [going to] become a much bigger problem — and also sort of merging kung-fu with firearms,” Gough said.

An “Into the Badlands” spinoff with guns would make for a notable difference from the original show, which put a heavy emphasis on the martial arts skills of its characters. As Millar said, “I think, as disciplined writers, it’s good to have those boundaries, particularly when you are creating a new world. It actually forces you to be smarter. And it also is an equalizer. Without weaponry, everyone was now equal. It was about skill, rather than having a gun. It made us smarter as well.”

More importantly, the spinoff would have had a much different approach to its storytelling. “‘Badlands’ was more of a journey to enlightenment and a show which, frankly, had a lot of quests,” Gough said. “This [spinoff] was a show that would have taken place in and around a town, it would have been more akin to ‘Deadwood,’ I think.”


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The idea of centering the spinoff around a central town had a budgetary component to it, as Gough said: “How do we do something where we’re not on a quest every week?” But, he added, “we would have built the town out and as the story goes, the world would get bigger. But, it was just an idea of how do you do something where it’s more about stories can cross in through the town, or come through the town, versus ‘They’re off on a journey again’?”

As Millar said, “It’s just really making sure that the spinoff [feels] distinct from the mothership. That they were two separate shows and you could drop into the spinoff without knowledge of ‘Into the Badlands.’ If you’re going to do a spinoff you really need it to feel like its own thing and it has a reason to be.”

“It can’t be overly reliant on the mothership,” Gough said.

As Gough said in the lead-up to the final season, ideas about other ancillary follow-up works are still in the mix. “A graphic novel feels like an obvious choice. But now there could be shorter mediums which could be a potential as well,” Millar said. “In a world of so much content and so many different platforms, there could be, in the future, a market for return to the Badlands. We’re certainly open to it and are exploring.”

Meanwhile, the current ending of “Into the Badlands” includes plenty of loose ends, but Millar and Gough are somewhat content with that. “I think it’s very valid that we don’t answer all the questions, it’s very Badlands that we don’t. It really makes people think about what who they are, and I think it puts the characters in a great place,” Millar said. “I think we answer many, many questions and then we also pose that you’re not always going to answer questions and the future is still to be decided. I really like that as well. I mean, if I were a viewer watching it would I be angry or frustrated with us? Maybe? But I also think it’s very consistent with what the show is.”

I actually got together with Daniel Wu on the day prior to the Badlands finale. He was doing an in-store at Darkside Initiative in SF's Little Italy for some exclusive Into the Badlands merchandise. They sold out quickly. AMC only licensed for a very limited run (I got mine tho! ). We grabbed some pizza after. I was hoping to get him to come to our Tiger Claw Elite Championships again next weekend, and he was into it because he loves seeing his old martial friends, but unfortunately he has this little event he was already committed to called Cannes.

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'Into The Badlands' Season 4 Could Land On Netflix
By Rachel Cruz
May 08, 2019 05:43 PM




WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Into the Badlands that may influence your enjoyment in discovering the plotlines. Read at your own risk.

Into the Badlands is done on AMC as the show aired its finale episode last Monday, May 6. Since the confirmation of its cancellation, however, fans have been campaigning for the series to be picked up for season 4 on a different platform, such as Netflix.

According to Screen Rant, it's possible Into the Badlands season 4 may get another life on the popular streaming platform because of its dedicated fanbase. Even the cast and crew have been reposting their #SaveTheBadlands campaign on social media to gain more attention from the TV bosses.

Incidentally, the earlier seasons of Into the Badlands are already streaming on Netflix. In a few weeks, the second half of season 3 will also be launched on the platform as well. There is an audience for Into the Badlands on Netflix. Will the streaming giant consider acquiring the show as one of its originals then?

AMC announced earlier this year that Into the Badlands season 3 would be its last. Its ratings failed to impress the network bosses, but Alfred Gough and Miles Millar remain grateful because they didn't think AMC would pick up the series in the first place.

"We would have bet against it, for sure. The show ended up being the most satisfying experience of our career," Millar told Deadline. Indeed, there was nothing quite like this series that spliced stories about ninjas, warlords, magic with stories about parenting, duties, and deceptions.


The creators of Into the Badlands also revealed via IndieWire that they had discussions with AMC to continue the story on a different format. If not as a TV show, Into the Badlands, may have comic book releases or an animated show in the future.

Meanwhile, the martial arts drama would have a completely different direction had Into the Badlands season 4 been renewed, as hinted in the finale. The final episode ended with Eli (played by Thom Ashley) finding an item near the meridian chamber, which was revealed to be a gun.

As fans are aware, guns were outlawed in the history of Into the Badlands; thus the fighters have been defending themselves using martial arts, swords, and bows. But that final scene revelation should have introduced a new dynamic to Into the Badlands season 4.