Will Donald Glover‘s recently announced Amazon deal impact the future of the show?
The award-winning series Atlanta will reportedly start filming seasons 3 and 4 back-to-back in March. Per THR, this is being done to get the show back to our screens as soon as possible.
Atlanta follows Princeton-dropout-turned-music-manager Earn (Glover), his cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry), a rising rapper named Paper Boi, as they navigate the local hip-hop scene. Lakeith Stanfield and Zazie Beetz also star in the series that last aired in May 2018, concluding season 2.
Along with the news of the show starting production for its final seasons (as of now), came the news of Glover exiting his overall deal with FX for a multiple-year, eight-figure overall deal with Amazon. How will that affect Atlanta, you ask? It will not. And although the FX series has not been renewed beyond season 4, Glover’s contract with Amazon, reportedly, has a “carve-out” that will allow him to work on Atlanta beyond season 4 if he chooses to do so.
The new episodes of Atlanta‘s season 3 are expected to air in late 2021.
