As
“ER” marches to its 15th and final season, the body
count will begin.
Executive producer John Wells says not all of the
current cast members will be around for the series
finale in 2009. He also could not deny that at least one
current cast member will be killed off before the
finale: “I don’t really want to answer that. Take that
answer for what you will,” he said.
What
if Wells does kill off someone?
“It
would be someone whose story has played out,” he said.
As for
series star Noah Wyle, Wells says, “We had always
planned that the end of the series would involve Noah
returning because he was so central as a new character
at the very beginning, an entering character growing up
in the ER. So we pulled out those old notes and came out
with a lot of new things.”
The
series is bringing aboard Angela Bassett as the new
chief of the emergency room – but Wells says she isn’t
being introduced for an eventual spin-off.
In
fact, no “ER” spin-offs are in the works, but NBC has
asked in the past, he said, “Sort of like how ‘CSI’ did
‘CSI: Miami.’ ”
Wells
has had the finale thought out for years, and has even
been taking notes for a while now.
“We
had a series of the story lines and things that we
wanted to do. I had sort of assumed at the end of Season
8 that that would be about it, but we were around Season
6. … So we’re going to be talking, I think, during the
season about the condition of the health-care system
because it will be our last time to really comment on
it.”.
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