Netflix has canceled the anime action-adventure sequence Scott Pilgrim Takes Off earlier than Season 2. The sequence premiered on the streaming big on November 17, 2023, with an eight-episode-long first season.
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off formally canceled after Season 1
Bryan Lee O’Malley, sequence co-creator and government producer, took to X (previously Twitter) to disclose that the sequence wouldn’t return with a sophomore season. O’Malley can also be the writer-cartoonist behind the unique Scott Pilgrim graphic novel sequence.
“It’s been one 12 months since Scott Pilgrim Takes Off got here out,” O’Malley wrote. “It was an honor to work with all the solid & employees world wide. It was like conducting a symphony orchestra day-after-day. From the second [BenDavid Grabinski, series co-creator] sparked the concept, the venture felt like a one in every of a form miracle,” he added.
O’Malley continued in a follow-up publish, “Anyway, we have been lately knowledgeable that the present will NOT return. As you already know, we solely supposed one season, and known as in a whole lot of favors to make it occur, so making extra would have been practically not possible. Nonetheless, I do know a few of you will have been holding out hope.”
Whereas O’Malley talked about that their intention was to develop just one season of the sequence, the ending of Season 1 hinted that there was extra to return. Episode 8 has a mid-credits scene, by which we see Julie Powers and Gordon “Gideon Graves” Goose seemingly planning one thing nefarious in opposition to Scott and Ramona. Whereas responding to a fan who shared a screenshot from this scene and requested what it was about, O’Malley wrote, “It is a fortunately ever after.”
Notably, moreover the present, the Scott Pilgrim comics have additionally impressed a online game, an animated brief, and the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, directed by Edgar Wright and that includes Michael Cera as Scott. The solid of the 2010 film reprised their roles as a part of the English-language voice solid of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, together with Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers.
