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‘This was never the plan’: Arcane creators deny claims popular Netflix show will run for five seasons

Harry November 8, 2024

Mysteriouscreators reveal the truth about rumors about the popular series’ five-season plan
Despite a recent report’s claims, it was always going to end after two seasons.
The rumor was born years ago as a prank on co-showrunner Christian Linke.

MysteriousIts creators have denied reports that the hugely successful series would initially run for five seasons.

I was previously speaking exclusively to TechRadar Mysterious Season 2 will premiere on Netflix on November 9Christian Linke and Alex Yee said the situation was blown out of proportion. In fact, the duo admitted that it was just a simple misunderstanding and had its origins in a joke former Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent played on Linke years ago.

Linke and Yee’s response came hot on the heels of a Variety article published on Nov. 6. netflix Production of the series, the outlet suggested: Mysterious was originally going to run for five seasons. Unsurprisingly, the story spread like wildfire across the internet, leading fans, including me, to ask why Riot and Netflix? He decided to postpone the time Mysterious after two seasons.

Close-up shot of Jinx looking at Vi off-screen in Arcane season 2 episode 3 — We’re not laughing about it either, Jinx… (Image credit: Netflix)

As it is, Mysterious season 2 was always going to be the final episode of the popular animated show – Linke told me that a two-season storyline was slated “from the beginning.” As Linke and Yee continue to explain, Vi and Jinx’s story was always going to wrap up after two seasons.

“When we started building the story after the pilot (which we pitched internally at Riot), that’s when we said, ‘Okay, there’s going to be two seasons,'” Linke said. “It was never planned to last five seasons.

Almost the exact opposite of what people interpret it as
Alex Yee, co-creator of Arcane

“But what happened was, I think we had the pilot episode or a couple of episodes, but we still hadn’t greenlit it for the whole season. At the time, Nicolo thought it would be really funny to pull me into a room and I said, ‘Hey, I know you haven’t greenlit it yet, and I decided not to give it to you.’ . I sat there looking pretty upset and he added, ‘Because I’m giving it to you, we’ve been going for five seasons!’ They both laughed but it was, you know-“

“This is almost the exact opposite of what people have interpreted (the five-season rumor),” Yee interjected. “Making an animated series; it’s such a long development process that it was too much for us to ask them (Riot’s executive team) to trust us with one season. But we also said, ‘If you want to have another season soon.’ So, we should start working on it while we finish the first one. So, this five-season joke was their way of saying, ‘Hey, we want to give you a lot of runway with this.'”

“Yeah, then we said ‘okay, it’ll be two and then we’ll grow from there,'” Linke added.

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The words “We will grow from here” still indicate that there may be talk of another installment. So, has there been any discussion about extending season 2’s original plot over two more entries? After all, HBO has a similar approach to Naughty Dog’s TV adaptation. The Last of Us Part 2 video game whose story will spread The Last of Us season 2 and a sequel season.

“Honestly, the story that ends this season is the story that we planned with the rest of the team,” Yee confirmed. “I think we dreamed of ways we could go beyond that, but one more season was always the milestone we wanted to reach.”

“To make a long story short,” added Linke, “five seasons were nothing but bullshit from our perspective.”

I’ll be bringing you more exclusive content from a conversation I had with one of these: best Netflix shows‘ showrunners in the coming days and weeks, so check back with me soon for more information. In the meantime, read some of the other season 2 focused articles I’ve written previously Mysteriousreturn of the world best streaming service under.