‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Still Happening: ‘Nothing Has Changed,’ HBO’s Casey Bloys Says
“Euphoria” Season 3 is still moving forward, HBO’s CEO Casey Bloys has confirmed, telling reporters on Tuesday that “nothing has changed” with the series’ plans.
Bloys, speaking at a press event showcasing HBO and Max’s programming slate for 2025, denied a rumor from last week that claimed the show was effectively dead and would not resume filming in January 2025 as previously planned. Bloys reiterated a statement reps from HBO made last week that “nothing has changed” and that production will still begin in 2025.
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“I don’t know where this started from,” Bloys said. “We are shooting ‘Euphoria,’ we have a start date, we are shooting in mid-to-late January, I have read the scripts, we’re moving ahead.”
In fact, Bloys even gave another minor update about the season: It will be eight episodes, to which he added, “Break that news!”
The speculation arrived after it was reported Zendaya had joined the cast of Christopher Nolan’s next movie, which is also looking to shoot early next year, as is an inevitable “Spider-Man 4” and potentially a third “Dune” film. Zendaya is also supposed to direct an episode of the new season.
“A lot of them became movie stars,” Bloys said of a cast that also includes Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney. “We’ve had situations like this before, where a lot of the cast has other projects. Janet, our head of production, is very good at figuring out puzzles like this, and it requires a lot of creative scheduling. But everyone is expected to come back.”
The return of “Euphoria” has been in the air for a while now, as virtually everyone in the cast has seen their star power rocket since it first debuted, including not just Zendaya but also Sweeney, Elordi, and Hunter Schaefer, all of whom were confirmed to be returning back in July. It will not however include Barbie Ferreira, who announced her exit in 2022, or Angus Cloud, who passed away in 2023.
Bloys acknowledged the show has a lot more attention now because of the rise in star power, but stood pat that nothing has changed about its plans. The show does not however have a target release date and was not included in a programming slate booklet provided to press outlining HBO’s series throughout 2025.
Creator Sam Levinson had also taken time away from “Euphoria” to make “The Idol” for HBO with The Weeknd, and there were reports of other disagreements with Levinson that slowed things down. Since Season 2 ended in 2022, the writers and actors strikes last summer further derailed things.
The series as previously described by cast members will undergo a time jump, perhaps as many as five years in the future. Levinson has previously described this season as a “film noir” centered on Zendaya’s Rue as she “explores what it means to be an individual with principles in a corrupt world.”
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