Filming for Euphoria season three has been placed on maintain.
The Sam Levinson drama was anticipated to start out manufacturing quickly on its long-awaited new season. However that plan has modified to provide Levinson extra time to work on the darkish teen drama’s scripts.
As well as, the present’s solid — which incorporates Dune: Half Two star Zendaya and Anybody however You star Sydney Sweeney — is being allowed to function different alternatives.
“HBO and Sam Levinson stay dedicated to creating an distinctive third season,” HBO stated in an announcement. “Within the interim, we’re permitting our in-demand solid to pursue different alternatives.”
That stated, the solid has not been launched from their contracts, and HBO nonetheless intends to get Euphoria season three on the air someday in 2025.
In an interview with Elle for Zendaya’s September 2023 cowl story, Levinson had teased the brand new season as a “movie noir,” saying Zendaya’s character Rue will “discover what it means to be a person with rules in a corrupt world.”
The acclaimed Euphoria is one among HBO’s top-rated sequence. Euphoria final aired in February 2022 and suffered the dying of star Angus Cloud, who died July 2023 at age 25. The present was renewed for a 3rd season midway by season two airing.
Levinson was writing the third season earlier than the Might 2, 2023, writers strike, a supply had instructed THR on the time of Cloud’s dying — because the actor had a central storyline within the season two finale. With the season halted amid the work stoppage, it was unclear what the creator had deliberate.
Final 12 months, Levinson additionally spent a while launching his short-lived provocative music business drama The Idol.
At an occasion final week, Sweeney was requested about rumors that the hit HBO present may not be coming again. She stalled by taking a sip from her water, earlier than telling the moderator, “Truthfully, [talking about Euphoria is] like, as scary as speaking about Marvel. I stated one factor, and it went in every single place.” When requested if she had seen any scripts for season three, she replied, “Possibly. I don’t know.” She was referring to one other interview earlier this month, when Sweeney hinted she anticipated to start out begin filming Euphoria quickly, telling MTV, “I’m going into Euphoria” subsequent.
Sweeney’s feedback got here shortly after her co-star Nika King, who performs Zendaya’s onscreen mom, went viral over a stand-up clip when speaking in regards to the lengthy hole between seasons two and three. “Season three is popping out — I don’t fucking know. Don’t ask me, I don’t know. … ‘We want season three!’ Bitch, I want season three! I haven’t paid my hire in six months,” she stated at a Hollywood Improv efficiency earlier this 12 months.
She later clarified in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter that she wasn’t being absolutely critical: “My reference about Euphoria throughout my stand-up tour was a lighthearted joke. Most individuals have seen me painting critical characters onscreen however my roots are in comedy. I even have just a few movie tasks releasing this 12 months that I’m enthusiastic about. It’s a blessing to craft a profession in each drama and comedy,” she stated.
In November 2023, HBO chief Casey Bloys had revealed that Euphoria was among the many HBO sequence to have been pushed to 2025 as a result of twin Hollywood strikes.