By HBO previously announced that production on a third season of “Euphoria” would finally get underway in January 2025.
The second season wrapped filming back in November 2021 and since then there’s been numerous start dates set that kept getting pushed back along with reports of creative differences between the network and showrunner Sam Levinson.
In recent weeks, rumors have been flying the series would not be making that date – talk which reached a fever pitch earlier today following the news of Zendaya’s casting in Christopher Nolan’s new film.
In addition a report on The Hot Mic said the planned 2025 shoot is not happening and multiple sources from different parts of the industry indicate the show is dead.
This evening, HBO opted to issue a statement to The Independent denying the rumors of the show being axed, saying only: “Euphoria is going in to production in 2025. Nothing has changed”.
The highly in-demand cast of the series – especially Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Colman Domingo and Jacob Elordi – all seem to be locking in projects at such a pace it’s not clear when next year they could film the expected final season and thus fuelled the speculation of the show’s cancellation.
Zendaya is currently filming Kristoffer Borgli’s “The Drama” has Nolan’s film to shoot in early 2025 and “Spider-Man 4” to shoot next Summer & Fall before hopping onto “Dune: Messiah” in early 2026.
Sweeney is currently filming the Christy Martin biopic and has both “The Housemaid” and “Scandalous” to film next year – the latter of which Colman Domingo is directing.
Domingo is insanely busy in 2025 – he has to prep that film, is currently in production on rom-com series “The Four Seasons,” and has multiple onscreen roles including a Nat King Cole biopic (which he leads), a role in Spielberg’s new blockbuster, voice recording for “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” and promotional rounds for completed roles in “The Electric State” and “Michael”.
Elordi is also booked solid. Having just done “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” mini-series and Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” he’s already set to film Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” and the dimension hopping thriller “Parallel”. Earlier this week The Daily Mail indicated he’s potentially up for the lead role of Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino’s new “American Psycho”.
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