Kurt Sutter addressed the new FX series built on his most famous creation Wednesday, posting an Instagram video to make clear he holds no grudge against Charlie Hunnam for bringing the “Sons of Anarchy” cast back without him. Sutter, who created and ran the biker drama for its full seven-season run, said he has no hand in “Legends” and does not expect to.
Filming himself in a beanie, Sutter told fans the new series has nothing to do with the characters or mythology he built, adding that thousands of people beyond him shaped what “Sons of Anarchy” became. He credited FX chairman John Landgraf and the network at large for years of support, then said he’d gotten an early look at the “Legends” script and came away impressed enough to recommend it. His endorsement carried extra weight given his history with the franchise: he was fired as showrunner of the “Sons” spinoff “Mayans M.C.” in 2019, a split that once made a full reunion with the network look unlikely.
FX ordered “Legends” this week as a limited series that reassembles Hunnam, Ron Perlman, Katey Sagal, Maggie Siff, Mark Boone Junior, Tommy Flanagan, Kim Coates and Theo Rossi, all playing fictionalized versions of themselves. The premise finds the group reuniting at a fan convention more than a decade after their show ended, only to face a real threat that outpaces anything their characters encountered onscreen. Hunnam developed the project with Jonathan Groff, who will run the show, alongside executive producers Rob Mac, Nicholas Frenkel and Jackie Cohn.
Hunnam arrives at the project riding fresh momentum. He earned his first Emmy nomination this year for playing Ed Gein in the Ryan Murphy anthology series “Monster,” and FX executives have pointed to that acclaim as part of what made them confident in his ability to steer a passion project this personal. “Sons of Anarchy” ran on FX from 2008 to 2014, following Hunnam’s Jax Teller through the violent internal politics of a fictional motorcycle club, and remains one of the network’s defining dramas nearly a decade after it ended.
