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 straight observe 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 referred to as it a “hilarious mix of the [franchise’s] fast wit and well-measured popular culture references.” However sadly, the collection gained’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 the entire solid & workers all over the world” and referred to 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 won’t return,” stated O’Malley. “As you already know, we solely meant one season, and referred to as in plenty of favors to make it occur, so making extra would have been practically inconceivable. 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 blissful to get a brand new story that includes these characters. For now, evidently’s the top of this chapter of the franchise, regardless of a post-credits scene included within the last episode of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
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