After months of waiting for updates on the release of the much anticipated season 2 of Carnival Row, we now might have been given an indication on when fans can expect to see the new episodes.
On 20 December 2021 Legendary Comics announced Tales of Carnival Row, an official graphic novel expanding the universe. The publishing date was given as 26 July 2022, just two days after San Diego Comic Con, which seems to suggest that there were plans to present the comics and re-introduce fans to the world of Carnival Row at the convention.
San Diego Comic Con, which was named the “largest convention of its kind in the world” by Forbes magazine, was also the host of the “Carnival Row Experience” in 2019, only a month before its season 1 premiere.
Unfortunately it seems plans were changed and rumours that Carnival Row would return to San Diego this year turned out to be untrue.
In June 2022 a Reddit user discovered that the release date for the “physical” graphic novel was postponed to 17 January 2023.
On 17 July 2022 Legendary Comics finally announced a Kickstarter campaign to fund the graphic novel. The campaign runs until 18 August 2022. It has already reached its target goal and backers will receive their perks in November 2022.
The graphic novel is also available to pre-order on Amazon Prime (click the link or search Amazon in your own country) and will now be published (in digital and physical form) on 17 January 2023.
So what does this mean for Season 2?
In 2019, the release of Season 1 on 30 August was accompanied by the publication of two prequel comics and a prequel audio book featuring the series’ main characters Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne) and Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom) as well as fan favourite Tourmaline Larou (Karla Crome) respectively.
If this is again the case this time, fans can probably expect the new episodes to drop in early 2023.
Overall, the fact that there will be a graphic novel based on the show seems to indicate that the producers are still invested in the show and are using the Kickstarter campaign to get the ball rolling again after this long hiatus, which was largely caused by the pandemic.
Carnival Row is also a very intricate series which relies heavily on CGI and takes a lot longer in post-production than other shows. Season 1 took 17 months in post-production, only slightly delayed by a reshoot nine months into the process. Season 2 wrapped filming in September 2021 and we can expect a similar time of post-production for it, which brings us roughly to February 2023.
Andrew Gower, who’s reprising his role as Ezra Spurnrose, was also quoted in a recent article:
Gower returns to his role as Ezra Spurnrose in season two of Carnival Row on Amazon Prime Video, predicting it would be out at some point in 2023.
He teased the story “gets absolutely crazier” and said his character has “one of the darkest journeys” that he had been on “for a while”.
Source: Express.co.uk
Further links:
- Show creator Travis Beacham explains the “Evolution of Carnival Row“
- Take a look at the Season 2 production timeline in comparison to Season 1 and the many hurdles the series had to overcome
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