The thrilling show focuses on a powerful and dysfunctional family led by business tycoon Logan Roy, played by actor Brian Cox, and the machinations, machinations and rivalries within his family and company as people fight to inherit his sprawling media empire.
The show, which ended last May, became a global hit and a cultural phenomenon, sparking debate about the “cool luxury” fashion trend and think tanks about the mental health of the super-rich. It has picked up numerous awards along the way, including six Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards earlier this month.
Fans have continued to highlight several spin-off ideas, although HBO's head of drama, Francesca Orci, said last year that the network was not looking into any spin-offs. Before the final season aired, Armstrong suggested that he could be open to a follow-up show, telling The New Yorker that he had a “strong feeling that there might be something else in the Allied universe, or allied characters, or some of the allied characters.” Same characters.”
Sideshows have become popular with other popular shows, with mixed success. They include Better Call Saul from Breaking Bad, Berlin from Money Heist, and Queen Charlotte from Bridgerton.
Armstrong said he enjoyed meeting cast members, including actors Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin and Matthew Macfadyen, while they were in Hollywood this month. He added that his meeting with his fellow writers “was like the methadone I got off the drug ‘Caliphate’.”
Armstrong said he did not anticipate the show's widespread popularity when he wrote it.
“I can't explain its success,” he told the BBC. “Even though the things the characters do and their moral behavior are sometimes reprehensible, and the things they do to the world have bad consequences, I don't think they're irredeemable,” he added. “I think I think of them as a product of the family and their environment and their culture.”
Armstrong said he drew on modern and historical examples for inspiration. “Imperial succession, royal succession, and corporate succession all fed,” he said. He also acknowledged a “clear parallel” with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, as well as “other stories we've taken from the real world,” including material that “comes out” of right-leaning news networks such as, he said, Breitbart, Newsmax, and Fox.
The first script reading for the series took place on the day Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. “I thought about it… with mixed feelings,” he said in the interview.
“I don't know how [the show] It could have come to a Clinton presidency, there might have been other issues that made it seem salient, but yeah I think that kind of imperialism, quite egregious in some ways, and the family and their fighting was appropriate for the Trump era.
When asked what he might do next for a stylus, Armstrong said he had “no idea” and “I'm very comfortable with that.”
He added: “I have some ideas, but they're at that delicious stage where I haven't done any proper work on them and they all look like they'll be absolutely perfect when I move on.”
Speaking about the “caliphate,” he added that he was “happy to do it.”
