Netflix’s perplexing thriller thriller 1899 has been canned after only one season.
Launched on the streaming service in Nov. 2022, the bold, multilingual collection from the group behind Darkish is not going to be renewed for Season 2, creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Freise confirmed on Monday with a press release on Instagram.
“With a heavy coronary heart now we have to let you know that 1899 is not going to be renewed. We’d have beloved to complete this unbelievable journey with a second and third season as we did with Darkish. However generally issues don’t end up the way in which you deliberate. That’s life,” the co-signed assertion reads.
“We all know this can disappoint tens of millions of followers on the market. However we need to thanks from the underside of our hearts that you simply have been part of this glorious journey. We love you. Always remember.”
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Set 13 years earlier than the Titanic’s doomed voyage, the eight-episode collection launched a group of eclectic characters on migrant steamship Kerberos, crusing from London to New York — the solid included Darkish‘s Andreas Pietschmann, Dunkirk‘s Aneurin Barnard, Hail Caesar’s Emily Beecham, and The Rain‘s Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen amongst many gifted others. Investigating a mysterious sign from one other ship, Prometheus, which had been lacking for months, the ship’s crew and passengers are drawn right into a nightmarish journey that discombobulates time and logic — and ends in an enormous cliffhanger. Friese and bo Odar had publicly spoken about plans for Seasons 2 and three.
Lynggaard Tønnesen additionally tweeted an early selfie along with his castmates, saying the solid have been “all actually devastated” by the choice to not transfer ahead with the second and third seasons.
Mashable has reached out to Netflix for remark, because the streaming service has not but launched an official assertion on the non-renewal. It isn’t clear precisely why the collection has been cancelled, although it is particularly curious contemplating the overwhelming reputation of the present — Netflix’s public rating system noticed 1899 sitting in its high 10 TV reveals for a month following its launch in Nov. 2022 (two episodes premiered on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant in September). In December, Netflix mentioned that 1899 had clocked up a whopping 87.9 million hours considered.
1899‘s cancellation might need one thing to do with prices (simply take a peek at Netflix’s behind-the-scenes particular Making 1899(opens in a brand new tab) for a take a look at all that tech, together with groundbreaking LED units). The streaming service has been pinching pennies since 2019 when worth hikes noticed subscribers bailing by the bucketload. Netflix at the moment seems to be again on monitor, spending $17 billion on content material in 2022.
Followers of the Netflix present have already established a petition to put it aside, after all.
