Here’s why season 2 of “Atlanta” will be delayed until 2018
Our Season 2 anticipations skyrocketed after Atlanta won Best Comedy Series at the Golden Globes, yet we have to temper our anticipation. The second season of the Donald Glover-led comedy has been postponed. Because, Star Wars.
In 2017, Glover will be filming the upcoming Star Wars movie, in which he plays a young Lando Calrissian.
Therefore, we won’t get to watch new episodes of Atlanta until 2018 “due to [Glover’s] production schedule,” FX announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.
And how do we feel about having to delay our Atlanta gratification?!
When you find out Season 2 of @AtlantaFX wont be out till 2018… #Atlanta #DonaldGlover #AtlantaFX pic.twitter.com/ft0VIAivJN
— Melis… (@MelB918) January 12, 2017
The fantastical universe he’ll be inhabiting in the film makes Glover’s acceptance speech for Best Actor in a Comedy Series even more relevant.
“I grew up in a house where magic wasn’t allowed, so everybody in here is magical to me,” Glover said. “Every time I saw a movie…I realized that magic is from people.”
“We’re the ones who kind of, in a weird way, lie to children so they do stuff they never thought was possible. I want to say thank you to my son and the mother of my son for making me believe in people again.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-k39j9g27E?feature=oembed
Given his incredible work as artist manager Earnest Marks in Atlanta, as well as his own music, created under the pseudonym Childish Gambino, we’d say Donald Glover IS magic.
