Recently, Collider’s Steve Weintraub spoke with Wednesday co-creators and showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who were both eager to give some promising and intriguing updates about the third season. The best news of all? The creative team is already working hard, with Gough sharing:
“We’re actually in the writers’ room for Season 3. So we’re down the road a bit in the writers’ room, but now we, of course, stop to launch Season 2.”
The pair also confirmed that, like Season 2, the next batch of episodes will be a set of eight, although it isn’t clear how they’ll be released just yet. Another piece of the puzzle that’s up in the air is how much Tim Burton will be involved with the upcoming chapter. The Beetlejuice helmer directed four episodes during the debut season and returned for the same number in Season 2, but when it comes to how he might step in during Season 3, Gough admitted, “No idea. I couldn’t tell you,” while Millar added:
“It’s always great to have Tim here. And the fact that he did four episodes in the first season and four this season was amazing. You know, so, it just depends on his schedule. I think that’s always the thing. He loves to do it. He has such a rapport with the cast. We’ve had a five-year collaboration with him, which has been one of the highlights of our career. So it’s just great. We hope he’s free to come back.”
‘Wednesday’s Season 2 Hold Up, Explained
Falling just behind Squid Game and Stranger Things, Wednesday clocks in at third place for Netflix’s most-viewed shows of all time. Sadly, it also has something else in common with the aforementioned titles — a lengthy waiting period between seasons. With an almost three-year wait between the Season 1 finale and the Season 2 premiere, fans have attempted to stay optimistic and patient for their fix. In the same boat, Gough and Millar say they were suffering right alongside their base during that lengthy pause, with the latter explaining:
“Well, no one was more frustrated than us in terms of the three-year delay. I mean, it was like we had the writers’ strike, and we moved countries, moved from Romania to Ireland. We had a lot of logistical issues to deal with. We’re used to doing network TV, it’s what we grew up on, Smallville was like every season it was 22. So it’s frustrating for us too, as storytellers and creators, to have to wait to share what we’re doing with an audience that long.”
Digging into what separates Wednesday from other projects the pair have tackled in the past, he continued:
“That said, the production is much bigger. We are going to be dropping visual effects shots into this last episode the day before it drops on Netflix, so it’s like up to the wire in terms of we always push visual effects to the max in terms of what we can do. So these aren’t just episodes, they really are movie-scale productions. We have over 3500 visual effects shot this season — they’re massive shots. It’s all about quality and making sure that the show is as good as it can be, but it’s, you know, big episodes… Smallville, we shot 22 episodes in nine months. Here, we’re shooting eight episodes in nine months and the level of visual effects and production is much higher. So, I mean, 18 months would be the bare minimum we can get the show back up just from production to air.”
While we’ll have to be patient for Season 3, the series is certainly a priority for those at the helm. The first part of Wednesday Season 2 debuts on Netflix on August 6. Stay tuned at Collider for more.
