Scott Pilgrim Takes Off will not be getting a second season, creator Bryan Lee O’Malley has confirmed, ending any hope that it’d return to select up the final plot hooks left dangling on the finish of its finale.
O’Malley took to X/Twitter to verify the information, writing to followers, “It’s been one 12 months since Scott Pilgrim Takes Off got here out. It was an honor to work with the entire solid & workers world wide. It was like conducting a symphony orchestra day-after-day. From the second [BenDavid Grabinski] sparked the concept, the venture felt like a one in all a sort miracle.”
It’s been one 12 months since Scott Pilgrim Takes Off got here out. It was an honor to work with the entire solid & workers world wide. It was like conducting a symphony orchestra day-after-day. From the second @bdgrabinski sparked the concept, the venture felt like a one in all a sort miracle. pic.twitter.com/y9XB6SMN0U
— Bryan Lee O’Malley (@bryanleeomalley) November 20, 2024
He continued, “Anyway, we had been not too long ago knowledgeable that the present will NOT return. As you already know, we solely meant one season, and referred to as in numerous favors to make it occur, so making extra would have been practically unattainable. Still, I do know a few of you could have been holding out hope.”
O’Malley went on to apologize to followers of the characters Matthew Patel and Gideon Graves, who he says will “endure probably the most.”
Asked a few potential bodily launch, O’Malley mentioned “we’ll see” after Netflix’s interval of completely ends. As for what the obvious tease for Season 2 was finally all about, he mentioned merely, “This is a fortunately ever after.”
O’Malley has been vocal about Scott Pilgrim Takes Off solely being meant for one season. In an interview shortly after its launch, he mentioned, “It’s self-contained for now. We beloved what we did. We put all of it in there. We don’t have any concepts mendacity on the ground. We just about put all of them in. I by no means say by no means, however proper now, it looks as if it could take about 50 completely different miracles concurrently for one more season to occur. So we’ll see.”
Despite his pessimism, followers continued to carry out hope that Netflix greenlight a second season, however that hope ended with at present’s put up. Netflix’s choice to not transfer ahead with Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Season 2 seems to shut the e book on Scott Pilgrim, which started as an indie comedian collection within the 2000s earlier than turning into a cult favourite film directed by Edgar Wright. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off was positioned as an animated remake of the unique story however shortly went in some very completely different instructions.
We wrote in our evaluate, “The sooner you watch Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the much less time you’ll spend worrying about spoilers, and the earlier you’ll get to get pleasure from a panoramic reimagining of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels. Even with the core solid of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World alongside for the journey, it’s no mere train in nostalgia, however a recent coat of paint on a flexible coming-of-age story, whose vibrant animation and expanded scope convey new dimensions to the storage rockers, video-store clerks, ninja-couriers, and evil exes who inhabit ‘Toronto, Canada – Not Too Long Ago.'”
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