"On some level it’s also a story about inequality," Mr. Hawley, who also serves as the showrunner for "Fargo," said Thursday. "You know, one of the things that I love about the first movie is how ’70s a movie it is, and how it’s really this blue-collar space-trucker world in which Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton are basically Waiting for Godot. They’re like Samuel Beckett characters, ordered to go to a place by a faceless nameless corporation. ... It is the story of the people you send to do the dirty work."
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