A 3rd season of Euphoria, HBO’s wildly widespread and controversial teen drama, at all times felt like a pipe dream, even because the community acknowledged publicly that it might be filmed and launched in 2025. However new reviews about Sam Levinson’s sequence point out that, on the very least, Season 3 has been delayed and the concerned actors have been instructed they will make different commitments, with some retailers going as far as to report that the season has been “completely scrapped.”
On the night of March 24, movie and TV publication World of Reel reported that the third season is “not taking place,” and that actors have been instructed “they may unlock their schedules for different tasks.” This morning HBO instructed Selection that whereas the community and Levinson “stay dedicated to creating an distinctive third season,” the beginning of manufacturing on that season could be delayed, and added, “Within the interim, we’re permitting our in-demand forged to pursue different alternatives.”
The community didn’t say that the following season of the wildly widespread teen drama received’t ever occur—Selection’s report says the scripts are nonetheless being written. But it surely’s price noting that HBO was equally hesitant to announce the cancellation of The Idol after its poorly-received first season, regardless that the rumors in regards to the destiny of Levinson’s salacious music-industry drama finally turned out to be true.
Within the two years for the reason that second season concluded, a lot of Euphoria’s stars have ascended to A-list Hollywood standing. Zendaya performed a lead position in Dune: Half Two and has her upcoming tennis drama Challengers out in April, whereas Sydney Sweeney starred in three movies in 2023 together with the hit romcom Anybody However You and the acclaimed Actuality Winner biopic. (She additionally performed a key position within the so-bad-it’s-good Marvel Comics adaptation Madame Net and performs the lead position in spiritual horror flick Immaculate.)
Jacob Elordi performed Elvis Presley in Sophia Coppola’s Priscilla and an vital position in Emerald Fennell’s polarizing Saltburn, whereas Hunter Schafer appeared within the profitable Starvation Video games prequel and might be a part of the ensemble for Yorgos Lanthimos’ subsequent movie Sorts of Kindness, which hits theaters in June. The Euphoria household has additionally handled vital tragedy within the type of the July 2023 passing of Angus Cloud, whose character Fezco had change into a fan favourite.
Levinson stays a scorching identify within the {industry}, however the failure of The Idol and the widespread reviews of on-set dysfunction have actually coloured his fame. In January 2024, HBO government Casey Bloys mentioned that Levinson was within the midst of writing Season 3, and that the 2 had not mentioned whether or not it might be the ultimate installment. (Levinson mentioned in August 2023, that the plan for the third season was to be a “movie noir” that might have used Zendaya’s character Rue to discover “what it means to be a person with ideas in a corrupt world,” which was actually intriguing, and will nonetheless come to cross within the unlikely occasion the present does resume.)
The sequence was at all times going to face challenges reassembling its more and more in-demand forged, and in addition grappling with the truth that these performers, now firmly of their mid-20s, have been imagined to be taking part in highschool college students. Even Elordi joked about it in an interview on The Tonight Present, asking host Jimmy Fallon if he knew when the season would shoot, and saying that “they’re going to should Benjamin Button me or one thing.”
If the third season is really off, it’s unclear what Levinson’s subsequent challenge might be, however the gifted performers–who have been at all times those that made Euphoria price watching–have a ton of thrilling movies and exhibits on the horizon.