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‘Shadow and Bone’ Boss Teases ‘Six of Crows’ Spin-Off and Season 3 Villain

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Shadow and Bone Season 2 may have only just landed on Netflix, but showrunner Eric Heisserer has told Newsweek about his plans for the franchise’s future.

The new episodes adapt the second and third books in Leigh Bardugo’s original trilogy, titled Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising respectively. They also take elements from Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom, but leave out an important plotline from the beloved works.

Fans of Bardugo’s books will recognize that the show has set up a Six of Crows spin-off that will focus on the Crows’ heist at the Ice Court in Fjerda. The storyline involves Kaz Brekker (Freddy Carter), Inej Ghafa (Amita Suman), Jesper Fahey (Kit Young), Wylan Hendricks (Jack Wolfe), Nina Zenik (Danielle Galligan) and Matthias Helvar (Calahan Skogman). This, Heisserer said, was intentional.

‘Shadow and Bone’ Boss Teases ‘Six of Crows’ Spin-Off and Season 3 Villain

In this composite image is Jack Wolfe (top left), Danielle Galligan (bottom left), Amita Suman (center), Freddy Carter (center right), and Kit Young (right) as Wylan, Nina, Inej, Kaz, and Jesper in “Shadow and Bone” Season 2. Showrunner Eric Heisserer told Newsweek how the characters will feature in a standalone season based on Leigh Bardugo’s book “Six of Crows”.
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The show’s second season ends with Kaz telling Jesper, Wylan and Nina of a new job they have been given, which will see them rescue a Grisha from the impenetrable Fjerdan fortress. The Grisha has created a drug known as Jurda Parem, which increases a Grisha’s powers tenfold but is also highly dangerous, as seen in the finale.

“If we’re able to get our way, because there are a lot of mouths to feed, the best course of action is to allow us to do Six of Crows as a standalone season and really spend time with those characters,” Heisserer said. “And then Season 3 of the mothership allows us to spend a good amount of time with all of our Ravkan contingent.”

The Ravkan contingent, as Heisserer describes them, involves characters like Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li), Nikolai Lantsov (Patrick Gibson), Zoya Nazyalensky (Sujaya Dasgupta), Mal Oretsev (Archie Renaux), and others who have remained in Ravka.

The showrunner explained that Season 3 of Shadow and Bone would largely take place at the same time as the Six of Crows spin-off, and the finale’s last scene is of particular relevance.

He explained: “Those storylines will at least somewhat overlap, because there is a scene in Season 2 that essentially lands on…

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