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Comic-Con: Bates Motel Cast & Crew Talks Season 2

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After a successful first season of Bates Motel, fans are now patiently waiting to hear more about the next chapter in A&E’s prequel series to Psycho. Season 2 won’t begin airing until 2014, but San Diego Comic-Con attendees were treated to a Bates Motel panel in Room 6A, where fans got their first taste of what’s to come for the young Norman Bates and his mother Norma.

Leading the panel were writer-EPs Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin, as well as stars Vera Farmiga (Norma), Max Thieriot (Dylan Massett), Olivia Cooke (Emma Decody) and Nestor Carbonell (Sheriff Alex Romero).

There was a noticeable lack of Freddie Highmore, however, as Cuse quietly asked the moderator to not ask about the actor’s absence. “I don’t think that’s appropriate to talk about in front of all these people,” he said. “Actually, this is probably going to get out anyway — just role the film.”

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies

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Bates Motel Renewed for Season 2

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A&E loves the Bates family. The cable channel has given a quick renewal to Bates Motel, their new series, after airing just three episodes.

The network is sticking with a short, ten-episode order again, with production set for later this year. Season 2 will debut in 2014.

Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore star in Bates Motel as Norma and Norman Bates, in a modern-day look at the formative years of the killer made famous in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin executive produce Bates Motel. The busy Cuse has a couple of other projects in development, including The Strain at FX, from Guillermo del Toro.

Said A&E’s president Bob DeBitetto, “Bates Motel has garnered critical acclaim and a loyal audience in its first few weeks. With superb writing and exceptional acting, led by the critically acclaimed performances of Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore, we’re incredibly excited to see where Carlton and Kerry take Norma and Norman Bates next.”

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‘Bates Motel’: Carlton Cuse And Kerry Ehrin On A&E’s ‘Psycho’ Prequel Starring Vera Farmiga

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

A&E’s “Bates Motel,” from executive producers Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin, premieres at 10 p.m. ET on March 18, and prospective viewers would be forgiven for wondering how anyone can pull off a present-day prequel to Alfred Hitchcock‘s seminal 1960 film, “Psycho.” (Read HuffPost TV critic Maureen Ryan’s review here.)

Cuse and Ehrin admitted that it was a daunting task, but the veteran producers of two of TV‘s most influential and critically acclaimed series (“Lost” and “Friday Night Lights, respectively) felt that they were up to the challenge, especially after securing stars Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore as Norma and Norman Bates respectively, the dysfunctional mother/son relationship at the heart of the show.

HuffPost TV sat down with Cuse and Ehrin in January to discuss the development of the high-profile prequel and the attraction of adapting one of cinema’s most twisted relationships for the small screen.

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5 Reasons to Watch Bates Motel

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Origin stories are a tricky. One of the challenges is creating a sense of anticipatory tension when we, the audience, already know the final outcome. When done well, it should feel like watching that moment in the horror film where you can see someone headed directly toward their own death. It’s frustrating, you know it’s inevitable but you also secretly hope they can avoid it – and you can’t look away. A&E’s contemporary-set prequel to Alfred Hitchcock‘s classic horror Psycho nods to the original while bringing new, or as yet fully explored, ideas to the table. Co-creators Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) designed the show so that they could, as Cuse says, “re-imagine the relationship (between Norman Bates and his mother) the way we wanted it to be.”

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Mama Review

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By Scott Collura

Mother issues — and mothers with issues — are nothing new to the horror genre. You’ve got the moms who torture and haunt (Norman Bates‘ mommy, Carrie’s overzealous matriarch, Pamela Voorhees) and the moms who get haunted (Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen’s Lee Remick, Ellen Burstyn by way of Regan MacNeil). And now, with executive-producer Guillermo del Toro’s moody and unsettling Mama, we have a mother who haunts another mother!

It’s a battle of the selfish Mamas, this film, with one woman reaching from beyond the grave to take care of the children she has no right to be with, and the other woman (Zero Dark Thirty’s Jessica Chastain) — the rightful, you know, alive parental figure — wanting to more or less escape the drudgery of the domestic life that these kids have forced upon her.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movie Reviews

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All Kinds of Horror in Bates Motel Posters

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A&E is set to premiere the new original scripted drama series Bates Motel from executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) on Monday, March 18 at 10 PM ET/PT.

A contemporary prequel to Psycho, Bates Motel explores how Norman Bates’ psyche unravels through his teenage years and unveils the dark, twisted backstory of Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga), truly is.

The network has released several teaser posters that give a sense of the tone of the show, take a look below!

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Bates Motel: See More Footage

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As Bates Motel‘s March 18th debut approaches, A&E have released three more short teaser videos; giving quick hints at the imagery and key sequences from the series.

From Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights), the series is a modern-day version of the story of a teenage Norman Bates and his mother Norma, and the events that will drive Norman oh-so Psycho.

There were two earlier Bates Motel promos in the same style, you can check out below as well.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies

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Why Bates Motel is set in the Modern Day

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Creating a prequel story to Psycho is a bold move, given how beloved the film is, but A&E’s upcoming Bates Motel is notably taking the story of a young Norman Bates and moving it to the present day. Speaking about Bates Motel at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today, executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) said that it was an easy call for him to move the series to the present, rather than the 1950s (to line up with the 1960 film), explaining, “The idea of doing a contemporary prequel made it clear that what we were doing was something that was inspired by Psycho but not an homage to Psycho, and that was a big difference to us.”

He later added that doing Bates Motel as a period piece “was not interesting to me. Again, I think the idea of an homage is just not… that’s just not engaging to me. So it felt like making that fundamental decision to make the story contemporary gave us the freedom to really take these characters wherever we wanted to.” Cuse noted that by the end of the series, ”In some general form, we are going to catch up with a version of the character from the movie,” but not having it set in the past made it so they weren’t bound absolutely to the continuity of the film and to have everything exactly line up.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies