The surviving Yellowjackets could have yet another season to make it dwelling.
The Paramount+ thriller, produced by Lionsgate TV, will finish with its upcoming fourth season, collection creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson mentioned in an announcement Friday night (which additionally they posted on social media). A writers room for the now-final season is open, with manufacturing set to begin in 2026. A premiere date hasn’t been set.
“After three unimaginable seasons, and nice consideration, we’re excited to announce that we are going to be bringing the story of Yellowjackets to its twisted conclusion on this fourth and closing season,” Lyle and Nickerson’s assertion reads. “We’ve at all times identified there would come a degree when the story would inform us it needs to finish, and it’s our perception that our job — our accountability — is to pay attention. Telling this emotional, wild, and deeply human story has been a profoundly significant expertise and a real honor for us, and we’re so very grateful to the sensible solid, crew and writers who’ve bravely gone on the journey with us to convey it to life. Most of all, we wish to thank the followers who’ve caught with us by each second, thriller and meal — the Hive is nothing with out you! We will’t wait to share the ultimate chapter with you and hope you discover it … scrumptious.”
Lyle and Nickerson will proceed as showrunners within the closing season and are in conversations with Paramount about extending their relationship with the corporate.
Yellowjackets premiered on Showtime in 2021 and have become a word-of-mouth hit because it informed the usually wild story of a highschool women’ soccer crew surviving the Canadian wilderness after a airplane crash within the late Nineteen Nineties and the present-day tales of those that made it out and tried to place their lives again collectively. The present’s third season concluded in April, and it scored a renewal — from Paramount+, which has absorbed the Showtime model as a part of its Premium tier — in Might.
The collection has additionally scored 10 Emmy nominations to this point, together with two finest drama collection nods for seasons one and two.
Lyle and Nickerson had beforehand mentioned they’d envisioned 5 seasons for Yellowjackets, however Lyle admitted to The Hollywood Reporter following the season three finale that “Any time that you just say, ‘We’re going to do 5 – 6 seasons,’ that’s a shot at the hours of darkness and extremely wishful pondering, simply from a sensible standpoint. … We really feel that there’s extra story to inform and we’re actually excited to dive into it. As you mentioned, to have the ability to inform the story of the reassimilation into society, to see what horrors are in retailer for them even with out the horrors of the wilderness may be very thrilling. However you possibly can by no means really predict and we simply shall be very grateful that we hold getting to inform the story.”
Season three starred Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Kevin Alves, Sarah Desjardins and Simone Kessell. Elijah Wooden had a recurring position, and Hilary Swank, Joel McHale and Ashley Sutton visitor starred.
Lyle and Nickerson govt produced season three with co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco, Drew Comins of Inventive Engine, Jeff W. Byrd, Sarah L. Thompson, Ameni Rozsa and Brad Van Arragon.