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Supernatural: Bloodlines

Supernatural: Bloodlines was a proposed American television series, before being decided against by The CW for the 2014–15 season. It was set to be a spin-offofSupernatural, with the twentieth episode of the show's ninth season serving as the backdoor pilot.^[2] The backdoor pilot was written by Andrew Dabb and directed by Robert Singer.^[3] The series was set to explore the "clashing hunter and monster cultures in Chicago".^[4]

Production[edit]

The existence of a Supernatural spin-off being developed was first made known in an interview with Robert Singer at SDCC 2013.^[5] It was later revealed that the spin-off would be centered in Chicago, and focus on clashes between hunters and monsters factions and introduce new characters.^[6] The title of the spin-off was officially confirmed by The CW as Supernatural: Tribes on January 29, 2014, the same day the network announced their new pilot slate.^[7] Later, descriptions for the characters to be featured in the spin-off were released.^[8] On March 8, 2014, it was reported that the project had been renamed Supernatural: Bloodlines.^[9] Andrew Dabb looked at several spin-off television series when developing Supernatural: Bloodlines, including The Originals, Angel, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and the NCIS spinoffs.^[10]

An episode simply titled "Bloodlines" aired as the twentieth episode of Supernatural's ninth season. Ultimately, the show was not picked up for the 2014–2015 season.^[11] While the tenth season was later confirmed to be the main priority of the CW, Jeremy Carver and Eric Kripke later revealed the ongoing development of another spin-off, with a concept dissimilar to that of Bloodlines.^[12] Carver later clarified that another potential spin-off's backdoor pilot would air in Supernatural's eleventh season as opposed to the tenth season.^[13] Mark Pedowitz eventually clarified Carver's comments by revealing that a spin-off would be discussed in June 2015.^[14] As of August 2015, Pedowitz stated there are no current plans for another spin-off attempt but he is still very open to the idea in the future.^[15]

Cast[edit]

• Lucien Laviscount as Ennis Ross, a police academy trainee who becomes a hunter after his fiancée is killed^[16]
• Stephen Martines as Freddie Costa, a Chicago cop and Ennis' mentor who secretly works for one of the monster families^[17]
• Erinn Westbrook as Tamara, Ennis's dead fiancée
• Sean Faris as Julian Duval, the head of the werewolf family^[18]
• Melissa Roxburgh as Violet Duval, a werewolf and Julian's marginalized sister who is romantically involved with David^[19]
• Danielle Savre as Margo Lassiter, the acting head of the shapeshifter family^[17]
• Nathaniel Buzolic as David Lassiter, a shapeshifter and Margo's brother who is romantically involved with Violet^[16]
• Bryce Johnson as Sal Lassiter, a dead shapeshifter who had formerly discouraged Violet from running off with David^[20]

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External links[edit]

• Supernatural: BloodlinesatIMDb