Production has been shut down on Fargo Season 4 due to the coronavirus and the season will no longer debut on April 19.
FX says the show will not be rescheduled for the current Emmy Award-qualifying period, which ends May 31. A new premiere date will be announced when production restarts.
The network is hoping to release the season in 2020. Principal photography has wrapped on eight of the 10 episodes of the season.
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The new season of Fargo stars Chris Rock as a Kansas City gangster in 1950. Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, and Timothy Olyphant will also appear in Fargo Season 4.
Rock’s character is described as “a man who — in order to prosper — has surrendered his oldest boy to his enemy, and who must in turn raise his son’s enemy as his own. It’s an uneasy peace, but profitable. And then the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies. And everything changes. It’s a story of immigration and assimilation, and the things we do for money. And as always, a story of basically decent people who are probably in over their heads. You know, Fargo.”
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The first season of Fargo aired in spring 2014 and was followed by the second season in autumn 2015. The show was last on the air with its third season in spring 2017. The creator of Fargo, Noah Hawley, told reporters in early 2020 that he will jump right into directing Star Trek 4 after completing Fargo Season 4, though obviously that timeline may now be changing.
Here’s a list of every TV and movie production that’s been delayed due to the coronavirus.
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Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN.
Source: IGN.com Fargo Season 4 Premiere Date Indefinitely Delayed