HBO Addresses Euphoria Cancellation Rumors

On Friday, experiences as soon as once more started circulating that the Zendaya-led drama collection created by Sam Levinson had been canceled forward of the long-awaited Season 3. After rumors unfold amongst followers on-line, HBO addressed the experiences.

“Euphoria goes in to manufacturing in 2025. Nothing has modified,” a consultant for HBO instructed The Impartial in a press release.

After months of hypothesis as as to whether or not Euphoria would even return for a 3rd season as its solid members’ careers have blown up, HBO introduced over the summer time that manufacturing on Season 3 was set to start in January 2025.

“I’m thrilled that we’re prepared to start manufacturing on Euphoria in January. We couldn’t be happier with our artistic partnership with Sam [Levinson] and this unbelievable solid,” Francesca Orsi, govt vice chairman of programming at HBO and head of HBO drama collection and movies instructed The Hollywood Reporter in July. “We sit up for bringing this new season of Euphoria to life for the followers.”

Whereas “this unbelievable solid” would not essentially assure that everybody will likely be returning, HBO has mentioned in July that they are going to be returning, itemizing Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi and Hunter Schafer, per The Hollywood Reporter on the time.

In March, the solid was freed up from their obligations to the delayed present so they might “pursue different alternatives” in the course of the hiatus, which they definitely have. Their movie careers blowing up has been an enormous a part of why followers began to fret about the way forward for the present.

In the meantime, filming for the brand new season of Euphoria is about to start nearly precisely three years for the reason that premiere of Season 2. Manufacturing on the third season was postponed a number of occasions as a result of actors and writers strikers and the tragic passing of star Angus Cloud, who died from an unintentional overdose in July 2023 on the age of 25.

It was beforehand introduced that Season 3 could have a time bounce, which Zendaya addressed throughout an look on Leisure Weekly’s The Awardist podcast final month.

“It is vital as a result of there’s solely a lot highschool drama you possibly can cope with,” she mentioned of the time bounce, jokingly including, “‘After which she cheats on her boyfriend once more!'”

The actress — who can also be an EP on Euprhoia — claimed that she would not “really know a lot about what is occurring” in Season 3.

“I do not fairly know precisely what the season goes to appear like, however I do know that the time bounce is occurring,” Zendaya mentioned. “It will likely be fascinating to see and perceive these characters exterior of the context of highschool and the way all of the stuff that we noticed after they had been children they usually had been in highschool impacts the maturity they’ve and who they develop into in a a lot larger world. I will be to see what occurs too.”