It was announced last month that Elizabeth Marvel, 46, had been cast to portray the U.S. president in the upcoming season. “Quinn is alive, we really want to be careful about revealing what his condition is”, Gansa said. The new season will find Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) back in the United States a few months after the events of Season 5.
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Ganza also revealed that this season, which will be set in NY after the series spent much of last season in Germany, will focus on the continued ramifications of 9/11 on the United States. “Anything can happen”, said executive producer Alex Gansa, who answered one lingering mystery.
Gansa elaborated on the plans for season six, to bow January 15, which will focus on the transfer of presidential power in the USA and the 70-day period between Election Day and the inauguration. It’s a odd, transitional time in the halls of government filled with anxiety and different competing interests, where a very fragile and complex transfer of power takes place between the outgoing president and the incoming president-elect.
Danes says Carrie has “repositioned herself” to “effect change from a different vantage point” while “rewriting the rules in her own head.Last season she was in a place of atonement, and she was wrestling with enormous guilt with making the choices she made, which resulted in the death of so many people”. That they’ve been working on preparing over the course of the past couple of seasons to varying degrees of success… Gansa, Danes, and Mandy Patinkin spoke with reporters later in the day, offering some nuggets of info about the road ahead.
Saul and Carrie will still be at odds, but they also still have an unbreakable bond. “She’s matured into a very different place from where he has matured to”.
Incoming President Keane, Gansa shared at TCA, is “a little bit Hillary [Clinton], a little bit Donald Trump and a little bit Bernie Sanders”. “We said seven or eight seasons sounded about right”, he said.
Saul Berenson and F. Murray Abraham’s Dar Adal will be in charge of briefing the president-elect on the realpolitik of national security crises.
Showtime has announced the season premiere dates for two of it’s most popular ongoing shows.
Regarding the acclaimed drama’s two-season renewal, Gansa declined to venture if Season 8 might be the end. “[But] it’s a big question over whether that would ever happen or if we could go back there”.
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Season 6 of “Homeland” arrives at 9 p.m. ET/PT Jan. 15.
