Regardless of its cancelation, the Heels showrunner is open to speaking about his plans for season 3. In a present about athletes struggling to keep up their roles in skilled wrestling, brothers Jack (Stephen Amell) and Ace Spade (Alexander Ludwig) are left to play the heel and the hero respectively. Heels proved to be a powerful success, incomes three nominations for the Critics’ Alternative Tremendous Awards. It has not been sufficient to avoid wasting the sequence, nonetheless, because it has already been cancelled by Starz.

Regardless of the surprising Heels cancellation, showrunner Mike O’Malley has large plans for the hopeful season 3, which he shared in a latest interview with Leisure Weekly. Along with confirming his need to buy the present to different networks, O’Malley defined that the way forward for the present would discover Jack’s damage within the cliffhanger season 2 finale, and what that fallout would imply for his character. See what O’Malley defined beneath:

Yeah, we’re actively doing it proper now. And a few of the actors are nonetheless below contract. Clearly, the [writers’] strike simply ended. I could not have any conversations about this [until now], and granted, they only advised me on Friday. However not solely are we attempting to [find a new network], I actually consider the Starz executives once they say they need to see a future for the present too, as a result of they did make investments lots within the present… I actually do suppose it will have a life someplace else. Hear, he will need to cope with the aftermath of that damage. Put it this fashion: He isn’t getting up and saying, “Oh, I simply received a booboo.” Or, “I actually wished Ace to win, and that was the way in which I received over on Charlie Gully.” He’s at that second considerably injured. And the extent of what that damage is, we do not know. We’re not about to go Friday Evening Lights with this factor, as a result of Stephen Amell is the star of our present, and the story goes to be about how there’s one thing for him to work by means of. By way of the place the present will go sooner or later, whether or not it goes on or not, I am attempting to put in writing a present about folks getting alongside and discovering a method to join. As Ace says within the final episode, he spends a lot time going after issues and attempting to get [success], however he might have spent a little bit bit extra time attempting to domesticate kindness. I consider that there’s an viewers on the market who needs to see characters genuinely battle by means of their very own humanity, and characters who’re attempting to attach, as a result of it is what individuals are attempting to do in their very own lives. And also you simply do not see sufficient of it on tv.

Can Heels Discover A New Community?

Heels just isn’t the one present to be canceled lately. Hulu cancelled How I Met Your Father, whereas ABC cancelled Dwelling Economics, and HBO did the identical to Successful Time: The Rise of The Lakers Dynasty. Amell’s present is among the newer cancellations, however it’s one that also has hope. Regardless of the choice by Starz, it’s all the time doable for O’Malley to seek out another person to maintain the present alive.

There is no such thing as a actual assure that Heels will discover a new community. Whereas O’Malley is set to safe a future for the present, there’s a likelihood that no different community chooses to select it up. After the damaging press ensuing from Amell seemingly disparaging the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in July, there could also be some unwillingness to attract criticism by selecting to resume the present.

One of many greatest issues that might make O’Malley’s plans for a Heels season 3 come to fruition is an outpour of assist from followers of the present. Warrior Nun was saved by a large fan marketing campaign that ran for eight months after Netflix selected to not renew the present, ensuing within the ordering of a trilogy of films. If a wrestling present can safe an identical stage of assist from its personal fanbase, such because the billboards, letters and months of campaigning the fantasy motion title noticed, one other community might take the possibility. If Jack’s story goes to proceed, Heels might want to discover a studio that’s keen to permit a season 3.

Supply: EW