Sam Levinson is shifting the “Euphoria” storyline away from highschool into early maturity, and HBO agreed to provide the showrunner extra time to get it proper, TheWrap has realized.
The racy teenage present — one in all HBO’s greatest hits — was already delayed due to final yr’s double strikes. However the determination to make the characters older may also serve to make the present’s edgy theme of intercourse and medicines much less risqué.
Levinson’s final present, “The Idol,” was canceled after widespread accusations that it was exploitative fairly than simply edgy.
A person near the manufacturing instructed TheWrap that Levinson’s writing schedule was delayed through the strikes, and the community “needed to provide him extra time to interrupt the story, as a result of there’s much more forwards and backwards now that the present is altering on this means.”
HBO introduced Monday that filming for the anticipated third chapter within the Zendaya-led drama could be delayed from its reported Could begin time, and gave its star-studded forged permission to pursue different tasks within the interim.
The transfer was prompted by “script points,” based on a high company insider who spoke with TheWrap.
HBO denied that the delay was in any means associated to the controversy round “The Idol.”
“Nobody has misplaced religion in Sam as a creator,” the person instructed TheWrap. “He’s the driving pressure creatively on this present, he’s nonetheless working with the identical artistic executives that he all the time has been, however because the present is altering, that course of is taking longer.”
Although HBO offered no particulars on the extent of the manufacturing delay, the person instructed TheWrap that every one events concerned are dedicated to delivering Season 3 to viewers in 2025.
Umberto Gonzalez contributed to this story.