Scott Pilgrim collection creator Bryan Lee O’Malley introduced that the Netflix adaptation of the favored franchise wouldn’t obtain a second season, confirming what many followers had already assumed.
Launched on Netflix in November 2023, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is an eight-episode animated collection based mostly on O’Malley’s best-selling graphic novels. The present doesn’t immediately comply with the plot of the novels, however does reunite the solid of the 2010 live-action adaptation to voice their film characters within the collection. Kotaku’s Kenneth Shepard known as it a “hilarious mix of the [franchise’s] fast wit and well-measured popular culture references.” However sadly, the collection received’t be getting a second season.
On November 20, to mark the one-year anniversary of the premiere of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, collection creator O’Malley tweeted that it was “an honor to work with all the solid & employees around the globe” and known as the collection “a certainly one of a form miracle.” The creator additionally confirmed that Netflix had lately handed on a second season of the animated adaption.
“Anyway, we have been lately knowledgeable that the present is not going to return,” mentioned O’Malley. “As you already know, we solely meant one season, and known as in a whole lot of favors to make it occur, so making extra would have been practically unattainable. Nonetheless, I do know a few of you could have been holding out hope.”
“Sorry to all Matthew followers and Gideon followers, I do know you’ll endure probably the most,” added O’Malley in a follow-up to the tweet confirming the information that there can be no second season.
Whereas some followers have been upset with the Netflix present and the way a lot it deviated from the unique graphic novels, many others have been glad to get a brand new story that includes these characters. For now, it appears that evidently’s the top of this chapter of the franchise, regardless of a post-credits scene included within the ultimate episode of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
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