Scott Pilgrim sequence 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 sequence primarily based 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 sequence. 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 sequence received’t be getting a second season.
On November 20, to mark the one-year anniversary of the premiere of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, sequence creator O’Malley tweeted that it was “an honor to work with all the solid & employees all over the world” and known as the sequence “a certainly one of a sort miracle.” The creator additionally confirmed that Netflix had not too long ago handed on a second season of the animated adaption.
“Anyway, we have been not too long ago knowledgeable that the present is not going to return,” mentioned O’Malley. “As , we solely supposed one season, and known as in quite a lot of favors to make it occur, so making extra would have been almost not possible. Nonetheless, I do know a few of you’ve been holding out hope.”
“Sorry to all Matthew followers and Gideon followers, I do know you’ll endure essentially the most,” added O’Malley in a follow-up to the tweet confirming the information that there could 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 pleased 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 last episode of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
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