“This was not fun”: Steven Yeun Vows to Not Repeat a Major Mistake from Second Season for Invincible Season 3
Steven Yeun has been the voice behind Mark Grayson aka Invincible ever since its inception on television. The Invincible series premiered in 2021 on Amazon Prime. The first part of the second season of Robert Kirkman-led Invincible was aired in November 2023 and the second part is scheduled to be released in March 2024. Prominent names from Hollywood including Mark Hamill, Sandra Oh, and J.K. Simmons have been associated with the animated series.
During a recent interview, actor Steven Yeun mentioned that they would not keep a huge gap between the episodes of the third season of Invincible.
Steven Yeun Talks About The Future Of The Invincible Series
During a recent interview with Collider, Steven Yeun spoke about the future of the popular animated television series Invincible. In between the conversation, The Walking Dead actor addressed the segregation of episodes with respect to the second season of Invincible. Steven Yeun mentioned that they would not repeat the same mistake in the third season of Invincible. The 40-year-old actor said-
“For us, we know that this big break was not fun. We’ve been working hard to get a lot of backlog done. We wanna time this animation thing appropriately. So, yeah, we’ve been working. We’re banking episodes, we know what’s going on.”
According to Steven Yeun, the gap between the episodes would not be as long as the second season of Invincible. During an interview with Collider in July 2023, Robert Kirkman addressed why the second season of Invincible could not be developed within a proper time frame. He said-
We debuted in 2021, and when we got the pick up for Season 2 and 3, we had to kind of figure [it] out. We finished the show as COVID was starting, Season 1, and so we had to figure out completely new processes to work with all the restrictions that came from that. Animation studios were shut down quite a bit during COVID because animators work in a lot of cases in large rooms and in giant groups. So we had to figure out a whole new way of working and that slowed things down quite a bit.
However, fans would not have to wait for a longer period for the third season of Invincible.
Robert Kirkman Provides An Important Update On The Live-Action Adaptation Of Invincible
During an interview with IGN Invincible showrunner, Robert Kirkman spoke about the live-action adaptation of the popular animated series. Without revealing much about his thoughts on the live-action adaptation, the American comic book writer said-
“Well, I wouldn’t want to reveal [what exactly would be different], per se, but I think that there’s a lot of different things that you can accomplish in live-action,” he said. “There’s a lot of different [audiences] that you can reach that you can’t reach in animation, unfortunately.
Kirkman believes that the experience of watching the comic version and the live-action adaptation of Invincible may not necessarily be similar. He said-
And I just think that there’s, I don’t know, there’s a different feel from the story that you’ll get in live-action that you may not necessarily get in animation, and they’re also two completely different things. I like the idea of, the comic is one thing, the Invincible series is one thing, and the Invincible live-action [film] will be a completely different thing.”
The plot of Invincible revolves around a teenage boy named Mark Grayson and his transformation into a superhero. Invincible Season 2, Part 2 is scheduled to premiere on March 14, 2024 on Prime.
