Fargo's second season will be a prequel and set in Sioux Falls
In June, Fargo's writer Noah Hawley revealed that he saw the riotously successful Channel 4 show as an anthology crime drama, with a new cast and setting for each subsequent series.
Now he's given further details away about the second season of Fargo, notably that the new series will be a prequel to the first, set in 1979, and will "stand alone as a period piece".
At the Television Critics Association in LA, Hawley said that the plot will revolve around 33-year-old Lou Solverson, a state policeman who has recently returned from action in the Vietnam War who is father to Molly Solverson, the Deputy played by Allison Tolman in the first series.
Season two will also introduce a new character, Molly's mother, and, Hawley says "we'll learn what happened to her".
Hawley hinted at domestic trouble in the new series: "[Solverson] thought he left the war behind, but he came back and here it is, it's domestic" and said: "There were a lot of clues left in the first season and we'll do our best to hit those."
Ben Schmidt, the police lieutenant played by Peter Breitmayer, will also return in a new, younger form.
Although the new season will continue filming in its original location at Calgary in Alberta, it will be set in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Luverne and Fargo.
Hawley also encouraged the inevitable "internet speculation" by giving away some stylistic clues, saying that the second season will be inspired by the Coen brothers' Fargo, Miller's Crossing and The Man Who Wasn't There - season one paid homage to the duo's No Country for Old Men and A Serious Man.
The writer expanded a little on who might be cast, namely that they would be little-known actors - as an antidote, Hawley suggested, to True Detective's "vehicle for movie stars".
Instead, Fargo won't need the likes of Billy Bob Thornton after establishing itself as an Emmy-nominated first series. "Frankly, I think we can do it with unknowns," Hawley said. "[Newcomer] Allison Tolman brought as much to Fargo as Billy Bob." The casting rumours start here.
