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Spoilers &Speculations
Season 6
Welcome to Storybrooke, a small town in Maine that you won’t find on any map. This town is full of magic, populated by fairytale characters once cursed by the Evil Queen Regina to live in our world—deprived of their memories and happy endings. Until Emma Swan came to town and changed everything. With the help of her son, Henry, Emma embraced her true identity as the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming—the Savior destined to break the Curse. But even after returning everyone’s memories, Emma’s mission was far from over. With the Curse broken, Mr. Gold (aka Rumplestiltskin) was free to bring magic to Storybrooke. And magic ALWAYS comes with a price…
When Regina split herself in an attempt to eliminate her evil half, she unwittingly released the Evil Queen. Now the Evil Queen is back and ready to leave a trail of destruction in her wake. Meanwhile, Regina is quickly learning that destroying her dark side won’t be that easy, especially when dealing with the consequences of having unleashed the Queen on Storybrooke. Emma learns a life-altering secret that could have serious consequences for her family and loved ones. While the heroes grapple with what Emma is confronting, Henry welcomes the new arrivals from the Land of Untold Stories by pledging to help them complete their tales. But when Snow White, Prince Charming, Regina, Captain Hook and Zelena become entwined in these untold tales, they find themselves haunted by their own unfinished pasts. Meanwhile, after handing Storybrooke over to Mr. Hyde, Mr. Gold continues his quest to wake Belle from her self-induced sleeping curse, in hopes of reuniting with both her and their unborn child.
“Once Upon a Time” stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as the Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O’Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Rebecca Mader as Wicked Witch/Zelena and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.
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6.01 - "The Savior" written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz | dir. by Eagle Egilsson | Airdate: September 25, 2016
Will pick up moments after the finale | casting Morpheus, God of Dreams for the premier | TVLine - 6/27/16
Archie Hopper will be back with a "new" patient | TVLine - 7/5/16
FILMING: July 7 - Central Park, Burnaby
Cast: Lana, Josh, Ginny, Jared, Jennifer, Colin, Hank (Jekyll) | source
Scenes: All cast in first scene, Colin & Jennifer in second scene, unknown actress in peasant dress seen on set | source
FILMING: July 8 - Studio - Gold's shop
Jennifer, Josh, and Colin | source & Hank Harris posted from the same location | source
Studio - Green Screen? Stunt coordinator posted a pic of a horse | source
Leaf Lady saw Robert and Emilie in studio
FILMING: July 11 - Regina's House
Lana, Jared, and Bex on set | source
FILMING: July 12 - Storybrooke Town Hall - Round Up
Lana, Sam (Hyde)
Lana, Sam, Hank, Ginny, Josh, Colin, JMo
Lana & Ginny
FILMING: July 13 - Storybrooke - Round Up
Scene #1: dialogue scenes will be filmed in the wooded area of the park beside the Community Centre | Regina's vault | Lana & Ginny
Scene #2: dialogue scenes will be filmed in front of the Cannery café
Lana, Ginnifer, Josh, Jennifer, Colin, Jared, Hank Harris (Jekyll), Raphael Sbarge (Archie Hopper), Beverley Elliott (Granny)
They seem to be looking up at something
Scene #3: dialogue scene will be filmed at the corner of Moncton and 2nd Ave
Jennifer, Colin, Ginnifer, Josh, Jared, Hooded Figure
Sword fight between Emma and the figure
Scene #4: dialogue scenes will be filmed on Moncton Street between 3rd Ave & 2nd Ave
Emma & Hooded figure
Last scene Emma exiting Granny's alone (in red jacket)
FILMING - July 14 - Studio
Emilie de Ravin back to work, Robert filming with her source
FILMING
Robert Carlyle & Giles Matthey (Mprpheus) at Cenrtal Park | source
Jennifer, Colin, Ginnifer, Josh, Lana at Central Park with a Steampunk airship that crashed | source
FILMING: August 3, Steveston
Scene 1: JMo & Tim Phillips (Cinderella's prince) with daughter | source; Emma has a shoe | source
Scene 2: JMo, Colin, & Jared film a scene | source ; Henry & Killian sword fighting and Emma asks if he should be in school/Emma has the shoe | source / VIDEO
Scene 3: JMo, Colin, Jared, and Lana (as EQ) | source
Scene 4: JMo, Colin, Jared, and Jessy Schram (Ashley/Cinderella) | source / VIDEO
FILMING: August 10, Central Park
Scene One: Dr. Whale, Ginny, Lana & Hank
Scene Two: Gosh, Lana, and Hank (near crashed airship
Scene Three (night): Jessy (Cinderella) with someone who we think is Cinderella’s step mom, a male and female (looked like a young couple) source, scene description and pics
FILMING: August 18, Central Park
Josh, JMo, and Sam filming.
When JMo and Josh wrapped, it was Bobby and Sam filming.
Nightshoots: Sam (not sure if Bobby still in the nightshoot) | source
Lana Parrilla posted pics of Saturday filming with Jekyll, Hyde, Grumpy, and Doc | source
Do you have anything on Once Upon a Time? — ButtercupOUAT
Ask and you shall receive! “We’re going to see Henry back in operation with Emma,” EP Edward Kitsis says. And yes, that does mean there’s a new operation name! “It will be revealed in the premiere,” EP Adam Horowitz says. EW ~ 8/19/16
Is there anything Adam Horowitz can tell us about Rumbelle during season 6 of Once Upon a Time? — rumbelletrueluv
What if I let Emilie de Ravin tell you about Belle getting out of the box? “The way she is extracted, how it happens and the characters that are involved is really cool, and it reveals a lot about her relationship and her past/future,” de Ravin says, noting that the show will explore more of Belle’s independence this season. “It’s been a long time coming. Now that she’s pregnant, and now that she knows that it’s not really just about her anymore, she has to take responsibility for this other little person. That’s making her head spin a little bit with regard to, ‘Okay, I can spend my life trying to fix this person, whether it’s for me or for him, but if it’s affecting someone else now, it’s a game changer.’ It puts a little bit of spanner in the works for their marriage for a bit. There’s some alone time to be had.” EW ~ 7/29/16
I’d like some Once Upon a Time spoilers please. — Jane
The introduction of the Land of Untold Stories basically opens up storytelling avenues to, well, “everyone,” according to Edward Kitsis. “What’s funny is in the pilot if you watch when Emma sees the wolf that stops her from leaving town, the book flips open and we see all these worlds,” Kitsis says. “It’s time to tell new stories, broaden the show and move forward.” As for why these stories have not yet been told, Kitsis points to something Hyde said in the finale: “As he said, I need a place where these stories can play out, which would make me think for some reason they weren’t being played out, they were pushed on pause.” EW ~ 7/8/16
Thanks for the Evil Queen scoop! Anything more you can share on Once Upon a Time? — Virginia
The Land of Untold Stories will provide a new avenue into the characters we’ve come to know and love over the last five seasons. “The intent is that these new characters and new stories are really a reflection on what’s going on inside of our characters,” says EP Adam Horowitz. “With Lana and the Evil Queen, that’s the starkest example, which we’ve already teased. We’re literally going inside her and pulling her apart. There are elements of that that we’re planning to do for each and everyone of the characters.” EW ~ 7/1/16
Do you have any scoop on what’s going to happen to Once Upon a Time‘s Belle and Rumple? Will they be going on an adventure for the first time together? —Rebecca
They will be going on an adventure together… or as “together” as they can be with Belle still stashed inside a decorative container. “Belle is with Rumple — she’s in Pandora’s Box, in the sleeping curse,” says Once co-creator Eddy Kitsis. And as the Season 6 premiere will make clear, Rumple did get said box back, as part of his deal with Mr. Hyde. As for where the “information” Hyde delivered in return will lead the couple, “That will be the mystery that we show you,” Kitsis says. Adds co-creator Adam Horowitz: “What we really focus on at the start is: ‘How the heck does he get her out of the box and wake her?'” TVLine ~ 6/30/16
Will any of the untold stories on Once Upon a Time hold a connection to any of the characters? — lennyukpirate1
That’s TBD, but the arrival of characters from the Land of Untold stories will certainly affect those in Storybrooke. “The condition of life in Storybrooke is very important,” EP Adam Horowitz says. “Hyde’s arrival impacts that. We’re planning to explore a lot of what that’s going to mean for the day-to-day life in Storybrooke.” Adds EP Edward Kitsis: “One of the things that we really want to get back to this year is that season 1 and 2 vibe of small town stories, being in Storybrooke and getting back to Mary Margaret as the teacher, Emma as the sheriff, Grumpy as the janitor.” EW - 6/24/16
What will happen to Emma and Hook in season 6 of Once Upon a Time? — Niamh
If you recall, when Emma and Hook reunited in the finale, there was a wedding dress in the background. Ahead of the Dead of Summerpanel at ATX, I asked the guys point-blank if this means wedding bells will ring in season 6. They stayed very coy on the subject. “I would say you’ll have to watch season 6, you never know what’s going to happen,” EP Edward Kitsis replied. “You never know what’s going to happen with those two.” Fear not, they answered a few other season 6 questions, so check Spoiler Room next week for more! EW - 6/17/16
Any news on Once Upon a Time season 6? — Carole
Aside from the fact that we’ll be getting a double dose of Regina next season, Lana Parrilla has a number of questions about season 6: “Will Baby Robin be magical?” she tells me. “Will Zelena and Regina continue to have a healthy relationship now that they’ve reconciled? Or will Regina end up hating Zelena for being the mother to Robin’s baby? I’m curious to see what’s going to end up happening in that regard. Will she end up growing resentful that she can’t have children, but yet her sister has her boyfriend’s baby? I feel like that’s a story to be told. Are they going to stand side-by-side in a sisterhood or is Regina going to grow resentful overtime?” EW - 6/10/16
Anything Once Upon a Time? — Tranquillity Sunday’s episode will provide a sense of the closure, with the two-hour finale kicking off a new story for season 6. “Like every year, the two-hour finale is kind of a different piece than the rest of the season, so in a lot of ways, this weekend is the finale for the Hades arc,” executive producer Edward Kitsis says. “I can say that it will break a few hearts.” As for the actual finale, part of it will take place outside Storybrooke. “As much as they’d like peace and quiet in Storybrooke, fallout from this weekend’s episode causes a character to go rogue in New York City,” Kitsis says. “Once again, the heroes are called upon to save the day.” | EW - 5/6/2016
Once Upon a Time’s Belle said she tainted her soul because she saved Rumple. Does she regret it? Does protecting oneself or family really taint their souls? —Rebecca
I hand-delivered, as I do, your salient Q to the series co-creators, and Eddy Kitsis answered, “Belle is very distraught because she did something that she never ever really wanted to do,” accidentally damning ex-fiance Gaston to the River of Lost Souls. “In that moment, when it was life or death, she chose Rumple, which obviously says something — but whether she wants to admit it or not is another situation. She doesn’t like being put in that situation and she’s upset that she couldn’t figure a way out, because she reacted in a moment and now has to deal with that for the rest of her life.” As for whether having “tainted” her own soul a smidgen might help foster an eventual reconciliation with her Dark One husband, since Belle now stands on less-high ground, Kitsis says, “We are going to have to wait and see what happens to her.” ~ TVLine 04/26/16
Adam Horowitz, executive producer and writer | twitter
Andrew Chambliss, writer | twitter
Tze Chun, writer | twitter
Jane Espenson, writer | twitter
David H. Goodman, writer
Brigitte Hales, writer | twitter
Dana Horgan, writer | twitter
Robert Hull, writer
Paul Karp, writer | twitter | sdcc
Daniel T. Thomsen, writer
Bill Wolkoff, writer | twitter
Mark Isham, composer | twitter
Sarah McCulloch, production Leaf Lady | twitter
Jerome Schwartz, production | twitter
Helga Ungurait, production | twitter
Geoffrey Hildrew, post-production | twitter
Everyone who sips from this well enjoys the taste too much. ~ The Dark One
We've been on the sidelines too long, sister, missed too many adventures. Now it's embarrassing. ~Leroy
"That's what villains do, they make themselves happy at the expense of others, but it just makes them more unhappy." ~ Snow White
"Come on kid, it's Arizona. It's not hell." ~ Cleo Fox
"There's magic everywhere if you're willing to see it." ~ The Dragon
"I still have a fist. Gold still has a nose." ~Regina
"Well, we're certainly not in Storybrooke anymore." ~Zelena
"Do you happen to have any duct tape?" ~ Zelena
"The Evil Queen is inside me always trying to get out." ~Regina
"This is a bad plan." ~Charming "It's the only one we've got." ~Snow
"I like the darkness. It's as much who I am as the light." ~Mr. Gold
"Regina never should have let me out to play." ~ The Evil Queen
Once Upon a Time will be filming in Steveston on August 24th! Here are the details:
Tuesday, August 23 - Crews will be in the area from 7:00am to 7:00pm prepping Moncton Street for filming.
Wednesday, August 24 - Dialogue scenes will be filmed on Moncton Street between 1st and 3rd Ave from 10:00am to 9:00pm. Filming will then move to the docks south of 3rd Ave where dialogue scenes will be filmed from 9:00pm to midnight.
Thursday, August 25 - Crews will be in the area from 7:00am to 5:00pm turning Storybrooke back into Steveston.