After a successful first season, Arcane, the animated series League of Legends, will return to Netflix next year. The streaming platform is currently facing some small budgetary problems. One of the reasons is the exorbitant price of the fourth season episodes of Stranger Things which would have cost a whopping $30 million each. But that’s not all. Netflix’s share value tumbled, due to a loss of revenue from the service’s suspension in Russia. The service also lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the end of 2021. A first for 10 years for the American company. As a result, the platform’s market value fell by $54 billion..
To balance the accounts, So Netflix decided to cut new show budgets by up to 25%, without naming any titles.
Arcanum spared
If we do not yet know which series exactly will suffer these budget cuts, it would seem that Arcane, the series produced by Riot Games and the French studio Fortiche, is safe.
In an interview, League of Legends developers confirmed thatArcane is totally independent from Netflix – Riot “produces the series entirely” in collaboration with the French studio Fortiche. The streaming platform only deals with the distribution of the series — the production of season 2 will therefore not be affected in any way, good news for fans who are impatiently awaiting the continuation of the adventures of Jinx, Vi, Jayce and company.
According to Riot Games, the production of the second season “at his best”. No official release date has yet been set, either publicly or behind the scenes, but all eyes are on 2023.
While waiting for the broadcast of season 2 of Arcane, the series inspired by the League of Legends universe, the community is once again providing us with very inspired fanarts. An artist has decided to transpose the characters from the series into a tarot card.