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It looks like a lifetime in the past, however Supacell premiered on Netflix practically a 12 months in the past in late June 2024. Whereas plans have been initially to get manufacturing underway in early 2025, they’ve finally fallen by means of. The most recent manufacturing itemizing, courtesy of UK Casting News, confirms that we nonetheless have fairly a bit longer to wait, with manufacturing scheduled for this Fall (Autumn for non-People).
Renewed a few months after its premiere, the superhero drama collection from Netflix UK dominated the Netflix charts worldwide, spending six weeks within the world prime 10 and garnering 33.40 million views throughout that interval, in addition to 40.90 million views for everything of 2024. The present additionally garnered rave evaluations and is certainly one of 120 reveals at the moment receiving a brand new season on the streamer.
Whereas we don’t understand how lengthy manufacturing will final, a 2025 return for the present and maybe even a 2026 one now doubtlessly appears to be like in peril. Trying again at season 1, filming occurred between July and December 2022, with the collection solely premiering in June 2024. Our hope is that we gained’t be ready fairly that lengthy for season 2, however a late 2026 appears essentially the most optimistic date proper now, with 2027 nearly actually extra seemingly.
The final public replace we obtained on Supacell was in November 2024, when Rapman mentioned the present’s future and supplied an replace stating that the scripts have been nearing completion. “What I can let you know is that Season 2 is loopy,” the creator of the present informed Deadline, “The writers’ room is all achieved, this season is simply loopy.”
This manufacturing replace is topic to change because the present has already set a number of manufacturing dates. The earliest manufacturing itemizing late final 12 months instructed that filming would begin in Q1 2025, however this was later pushed again to Summer season and now pushed again once more to begin in October 2025. Filming is happening as soon as once more in the UK.
What may very well be the holdup? It may very well be that Rapman now has a busy schedule. In case you missed it, it’s been reported that Rapman has additionally secured one other new venture at Netflix. He’s inked a brand new deal to work on against the law biopic, The Council, which depicts against the law syndicate that operated in Harlem, New York Metropolis, within the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties, with Nicky Barnes, also called Mr. Untouchable, as the pinnacle of the group.
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