O que aconteceu após o final do Truman Show?

O co-roteirista do filme Peter Weir escreveu uma quantidade considerável de histórias para um documentário que acabou sendo reciclado em intersticiais e extras de DVD, bem como um muito mais curto Nickelodeon especial.

Uma das coisas que ele escreveu foi um show 'Bíblia'para dar ao elenco e à equipe algumas informações sobre o Truman Show, bem como, criticamente, para onde ele iria depois que Truman fosse embora. Em resumo, o programa terminou quando ele saiu e não recomeçou devido a mudanças na lei, impedindo a OmniCam Network de simplesmente adotar outro filho indesejado.

There were highs and lows in the ratings over the years, the show going through a rather bad slump in the later years prior to Truman’s departure. Would it have gone with Truman to the grave? Nobody knows, nor will they ever know, as it’s unlikely there’ll be another Truman, as witnessed by countless “reality” shows that attempted to emulate the success of “The Truman Show” and failed.

Extract from the Guinness Book of Records:

“...while the longest-running, continuous, (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) live television programming in history was “The Truman Show.” The program was broadcast from a single studio in Burbank, California (SEE Largest Inflatable Structure in the world, p. 987) and sent live to the world via satellite by U.S. broadcast giant, The Omnicam Corporation. The show, which occupied its own channel, ran for twenty-nine years, ending when the star, Truman Burbank, an orphan unaware that the town in which he lived was a stage-set or that his every move had been filmed from birth, discovered the “secret” and walked away from the show (SEE Most Watched Television Events, p. 549).

Subsequent legislation in the United States has prevented any further exploitation of this kind, although similar programs have since been attempted from countries with lax media laws. So far no show has proved to have the staying power of “The Truman Show”.

_{^{THE TRUMAN SHOW: Introduction by Peter Weir}}

Parece plausível que Truman, sob a influência de Sylvia (como chefe da Frente de Libertação de Truman) e transmitindo suas próprias experiências, incentivasse a aprovação desta lei.

Em um roteiro inicial de Andrew Niccol, uma garota chamada Zoe se torna a nova Truman:

We focus on the screen of a television. A small FEMALE BABY sucks a toy on a blanket in the backyard of Truman's old suburban home in Queens, the lawn he mowed for ten years of his life. The infant's doting parents, MARLON and the new actress VIVIEN, enter frame and begin to fuss over the child. A border around the action on the screen announces, "ZOE - Total Record Of a Human Life".

Truman e Sylvia têm um filho. Observe que esta é uma versão muito, muito mais sombria em que Truman é alcoólatra.