Precisely one 12 months after Scott Pilgrim Takes Off debuted on Netflix, co-developer/govt producer Bryan Lee O’Malley, on whose graphic novels the present was based mostly, revealed to followers that the anime journey collection is completed and there will likely be no second season.
“We had been just lately knowledgeable that the present will NOT return,” he wrote on X. “As you realize, we solely meant one season, and known as in quite a lot of favors to make it occur, so making extra would have been almost unattainable. Nonetheless, I do know a few of you’ve been holding out hope.”
O’Malley and fellow collection co-developer/govt producer BenDavid Grabinski have been making ready followers for the end result because the eight-episode first season of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off was launched final November.
“It’s self-contained for now. We liked what we did. We put all of it in there. We don’t have any concepts mendacity on the ground. We just about put all of them in,” O’Malley said about Season 1 in a Rolling Stone interview final November. “I by no means say by no means, however proper now, it looks as if it could take about 50 completely different miracles concurrently for an additional season to occur.”
Added O’Malley on the time, “Persons are at all times complaining about how reveals get canceled after one season. So we hedged our bets instantly, and tried to make a self-contained one season.”
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off‘s voice forged featured the actors from the live-action movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World reprising their roles, together with Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Alison Capsule, Brandon Routh, Anna Kendrick and Jason Schwartzman.