The 100 Prequel Is Still in Development Says The CW’s Head

The CW announced its fall slate on Tuesday. The 100 prequel was not on the list, but according to network head Mark Pedowitz, the series is still in the works.

During The CW’s scheduling call on Tuesday, Pedowitz told reporters that discussions were still ongoing.

I bet you’re gonna be shocked by this: There are still discussions going on. It is not done in any way, shape, or form, but there’s discussions still happening.

Mark Pedowitz

As reported by Deadline, there has been on and off discussions for The 100 prequel to have a joint run on the CW and HBO Max.

The 100 prequel started as a backdoor pilot in the final season of The CW drama last year. The 100 ended with its 7th season in September 2020.

Showrunner Jason Rothenberg talked to ComicBook.com about the episode previously,

They asked me to develop a prequel, and there were several different avenues that we could have gone down. My initial thought was, ‘let’s do it in space where, as we know, the Ark is coming together at this time. All the ancestors of our protagonist in the original show from the original 100 are up in space.’ But then this became kind of… We keyed it into what the prequel should be because it made more sense for the story we were telling in season seven.

Jason Rothenberg

The untitled prequel is set 97 years before the events of the original series. It starts with the end of the world, a nuclear apocalypse that wipes out most of the human population on Earth, and follows a band of survivors as they learn to cope in a dangerous world while fighting to create a new and better society from the ashes of the one before.

About The 100

The 100 is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama television series that premiered on March 19, 2014, on The CW and ended on September 30, 2020.

The series, developed by Jason Rothenberg, is loosely based on the novel series of the same name by Kass Morgan.

The series follows a group of post-apocalyptic survivors, chiefly a group of criminal adolescents, including Clarke Griffin, Finn Collins, Bellamy Blake, Octavia Blake, Jasper Jordan, Monty Green, Raven Reyes, and John Murphy. They are among the first people from a space habitat, the Ark, to return to Earth after a devastating nuclear apocalypse.