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The destiny of the third season of Euphoria appears murkier than ever.
Following the large success of Euphoria‘s Season One in 2019, Season Two was hit with the COVID pandemic and didn’t hit HBO till 2022. Afterwards, the tragic demise of Angus Cloud, who performed the beloved character Fezco, and the Hollywood writers and actors strikes, led to a number of delays and setbacks for the third installment.
On Monday, the streaming big revealed that whereas creator Sam Levinson was nonetheless “dedicated” to creating a 3rd season of the hit drama, any projected premiere dates have been postponed. Variety reported that Levinson is intent on attempting to get one ultimate season out of the collection and its high-wattage solid, however sources advised the outlet that the present’s script has undergone a number of rewrites and inventive disagreements.
Levinson, who writes and directs every episode, at one level pitched his Season Three imaginative and prescient in winter 2023, which quick forwarded the previous college students of East Highland Excessive Faculty 5 years into the longer term. One among his first passes reportedly included an immediately-vetoed storyline wherein Zendaya’s Rue was written into extra of a background function as a non-public detective. A supply advised Selection that early drafts additionally included “very compelling” arcs for Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi’s Cassie and Nate, respectively, and that HBO thought it was a robust begin.
Nevertheless, as information drafts rolled in post-WGA strike, they reportedly didn’t make it previous Zendaya, who has garnered two Emmys from the collection and is a govt producer for the present. From late 2023 to early 2024, Levinson submitted new scripts with one together with an concept from Zendaya herself providing a brand new consequence for Rue, this time as a now sober younger lady who could be a being pregnant surrogate.
Nevertheless, the revised scripts nonetheless couldn’t nail the present’s tone, and because the inventive variations piled on, HBO started to discover different eventualities — with one involving Levinson stepping away from the present he created, per Selection. In accordance the outlet, potential film or specials had been finally thrown out, however sources stated the present’s stars are nonetheless contracted for a 3rd season. Your complete solid — notably Zendaya, Sweeney and Elordi — and Levinson are devoted to sticking with Euphoria to the tip of Season Three, sources stated.
Within the meantime, HBO has acknowledged that its solid has been allowed to “pursue different alternatives,” as a number of Euphoria stars have had main success for the reason that teen drama first aired in 2019. Hunter Schaffer starred as Tigris in The Starvation Video games prequel (2023), Jacob Elordi performed the “King of Rock’n’ Roll” in A24’s Elvis (2023) and a number one function within the critically acclaimed Saltburn, whereas Zendaya simply wrapped her function as Chani in Dune: Half Two earlier this month (with Luca Guadagino’s Challengers releasing in April).
Levinson has additionally spent the previous few years balancing Euphoria with HBO’s doomed musical drama The Idol, which was tormented by its personal set of delays, reshoots, and rewrites. The Weeknd-starring collection later confronted allegations of a horrible on-set ambiance, as reported by Rolling Stone, and was cancelled in August 2023 after simply 5 episodes.
