Starz is doubling down on the Energy Universe.
The premium cabler on Monday issued an early Season 2 pickup for Energy E-book III: Elevating Kanan, which has not even aired its sequence premiere.
The transfer is an early vote of confidence within the prequel.
The third e book within the Energy Universe stars Patina Miller (Madam Secretary; The Starvation Video games Franchise) as Raquel Raq Thomas and Mekai Curtis within the titular position as Kanan Stark.
The forged additionally contains Omar Epps (Home, Love and Basketball), London Brown (Ballers), Malcolm Mays (Them, Snowfall), Hailey Kilgore (Wonderful Tales), Joey Bada$$ (Two Distant Strangers), Toby Sandeman (The Royals), Shanley Caswell (The Conjuring), Lovie Simone (The Craft: Legacy) and Quincy Brown (Dope).
Energy E-book III: Elevating Kanan takes place in 1991.
It’s a sprawling household drama that revolves across the coming of age of Kanan Stark, Ghost and Tommy’s mentor, associate and adversary, who in the end dies in a hail of gunfire within the eighth episode of Energy’s penultimate season.
After we meet up with Kanan right here, he’s the fifteen-year-old solely little one of Raquel Raq Thomas, a cocaine distributor with an rising community of sellers throughout town.
Very like the unique Energy, Elevating Kanan explores themes of id, violence, and legacy, however it is usually a deep dive into the very pathology of household, the distinctive, difficult and fraught dynamic between mother or father and little one, mom and father, brother and sister.
In an more and more fractious world, household usually appears like the one refuge from all of the divisiveness and discord, and but, on the similar time, we regularly uncover that it’s these closest to us who betray us and our values most.
The primary season of Elevating Kanan is an exploration of those betrayals, the secrets and techniques and lies that accompany them, and the methods by which they fester, metastasize, and in the end erupt.
The overarching theme of this primary season is, “You reap what you sow.” In different phrases, actions have penalties; betrayals are at all times uncovered; secrets and techniques are inevitably revealed; chickens come house to roost.
Each character in Elevating Kanan is hiding one thing.
From the world, from one another, from themselves. And because the story unfolds, they every should grapple with the unintended and harmful penalties of the knowledge they’ve hidden and withheld.
And whereas the methods by which these betrayals, secrets and techniques, and lies reveal themselves will range, one reality will stay fixed: In Elevating Kanan, as within the Energy Universe, nobody might be trusted, and nothing is ever because it appears.
“One season isn’t sufficient to inform the approaching of age story of Kanan Stark and his mom, Raq, a fierce and profitable lady who’s a drive of nature,” Jeffrey Hirsch, Starz president and CEO, mentioned through assertion.
“The anticipation globally for extra of the Energy universe made it clear that the Kanan story must proceed.”
Try the trailer and you should definitely catch the sequence premiere on Sunday, July 18 at eight PM ET/PT.
Paul Dailly is the Affiliate Editor for TV Fanatic. Observe him on Twitter.