Attention Sex and the City fans: Read no further if you do not want to know the identity of one of the show’s major characters said to kick the bucket in the new series spinoff.
And Just Like That, currently filming in New York, picks up with three of the four leading ladies of Sex and the City–Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristen Davis) going about their lives some 10 years after we last saw them. Now, The Daily Mail reports that the pilot for the new series will eliminate a major character from the show, and that much of the ensuing show will deal with the aftermath.
Actress Kim Cattrall refused to reprise her role as the libidinous Samantha for the new show (or a third movie, the idea for which served as a partial basis for the new series), though sources for The Daily Mail insist that the producers have refused to kill Samantha off-screen. That should come as good news for fans of the character, as she potentially could return in future seasons.
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Now a source close to the production spills on the major character who bites the dust.
“This is all top secret at the moment, because production has just started, but in the first episode fans will be served up a jaw-dropping storyline where one of the major names on the show will die,” the source revealed. “Those in the know are calling it a ‘big death’, which obviously has everyone leaping to the conclusion that Mr. Big will be no more.”
For those that don’t recall, Carrie had an on-again/off-again romance with the lothario Mr. Big (Chris Noth) throughout the original series. The pair married in the Sex and the City movie. Noth has also been confirmed to return to the new show. So why kill Mr. Big off now?
The producers for the show–including Sarah Jessica Parker–have designed the death in hopes to “shake up audiences from the get-go to make them realize this is a different paced show from the previous one, where anything can happen and anyone can go… just like life.”
So is it all true? Is this the end of Carrie and Mr. Big? Time will tell. And Just Like That is scheduled to debut on HBO next year.
MikeInTX
No big shocker there. Chris Noth didn’t want to return, either, stating he thought he had done as much with the character as he could, and then Darren Star figured out a way to bring him back. The rumors the the show would open with Big already dead were there before production even started so it’s pretty logical.
lou lou de la falaise
They’ve posted pictures of the filming, Big is there.
MynameisSid
And just like that… He’s dead
BoomerMyles
Would be more impact full if they killed off Samantha.
I don’t see how they can explain her absence by her just falling out of favor with the group.
glennmcbride
It would have a lot more impact if they just killed off Carrie. That I would watch and cheer.
cuteguy
Add killing Charlotte and her botched pillow face, and now it’s something to watch
stanhope
It’s a turd waiting to stink…no Samantha, no love
Jack Meoff
I’m betting it’s Harry or Steve
cuteguy
This is no big shocker. It was released already as the premise for SATC 3. Some insiders said Kim didn’t want the story based around solely on Carrie. And SJP didn’t deal with Kim in a professional manner and tried to bully her to come pack by pressuring her. Good for Kim for standing up fit herself. I’m curious to see this new show but not overly excited. It was a smart business decision to steam it on HBO MAX. It would have surely bombed in the theaters
Hdtex
Please God, let them all be taken out by a speeding bus in Times Square.
Put this dead horse to bed.
inbama
Cattrall was right to move on.
At this point, it’s just a less funny “Golden Girls” but without Sophia.
nitejonboy
Carrie should be the one wiped out….here’s an idea…let it be a big puddle from a taxi like in the original show opening credits…and it gives her a cold which becomes pneumonia and she dies on her bed surrounded by her shoes.Then Samantha can come back and all the people we’d actually like to watch for an hour every week, as opposed to that boring wench.
ingyaom
I think HBO may want to steal this idea.