'Trollhunters' Getting a Second Season from Netflix and Guillermo del Toro
Netflix has announced that it has renewed Guillermo del Toro's Trollhunters for a second season, and will return the late Anton Yelchin to the titular role of Jim Lake Jr.
The first season of the series has met critical acclaim for its world building and quality of animation. Despite Yelchin's passing in June of 2016, the actor recorded all of his work for the first season and most of his role for the sequel series. Reportedly, season two has been in the works for a while.
“We’ve been working on a second season for a while now because we knew that if everything went right, we could proceed. We’re going to go ahead and now continue, rather than start, because we’ve been doing it for more than a year. The reality and the beauty of this is that we can continue not only the storyline and the characters, but we have a huge swath of work from Anton that allows us to continue Anton through more than half the season,” Del Toro told EW.
The series has been in the works for over four years, with a planned fifty-two episodes divided into 13 episode arcs. “There was a break in the arc in the right episode that allows us to preserve all the work that Anton did that was phenomenal. … We’re not only going to second season, but we’re going to be able to preserve a really large part of it with Anton’s voice.”
Del Toro also explained a coincidence within the story that allows for Yelchin's character to depart the series. He says that the story has “an event in the last episode Anton did which allows us to sort of change his voice slightly, so the character stays — but we didn’t plan this.”
