Coronation Street producer Iain MacLeod this week said that a new villain will be joining the show.
As we already know from Iain MacLeod, Underworld will be knocked down next year. And this sends Carla Connor into a tailspin, causing mental health problems, which will be explored in a special standalone episode.
Now, Iain MacLeod has teased a little more on the identity of the new villain who causes the Underworld roof collapse next year.
With credit to Digital Spy.
Ian MacLeod said: "I won't tell you who it is - we're a long way off that yet. What I have always liked about Corrie is the ability to have villains like Hillman and Phelan who come in and burn bright and also the more complicated, long range villain like Mike Baldwin - ruthless, self serving and looking out for number one.
"We're designing a character in that latter type who can stay long term as an antagonistic person who's just messing up lives. The other thing I am attracted to is watching the genesis of that person, rather than bringing someone new in. By going with this character on this journey - their intentions are good and they rapidly snowball. It will be a very slow burn - but it is tempting to speed things up.
"By the end of 2019, there will be an unmistakably new and complicated villainous character on the cobbles. To begin with, they don't flip a switch that makes this person into a bad character - it's organic and through desperation and corruption of original intentions. It's about small choices which accumulate.
"It's someone we already know. Our commissioning editor Hugh said 'it's almost like the Godfather!' I wouldn't presume to compare what we do with one of the greatest films of all time but it has some similarities."
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