‘Fionna and Cake’ Creator Adam Muto on Whether There Will Be a Season 2 — Or Another ‘Adventure Time’ Spin-Off

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Wondering whether there will be more seasons or episodes of the Max animated series “Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake”?

So is executive producer Adam Muto. “It’s in discussion,” Muto told Variety last week at the SCAD Animation Fest in Atlanta. “But the person who greenlit the first season is no longer at Max.” The future of “Fionna and Cake,” and the “Adventure Time” franchise as a whole, is still in the brainstorming phase, Muto said. “My hope is that this series did well enough that they feel like they can invest in future seasons,” he said. “What shape that takes, if that’s a ‘Fionna & Cake’ Season 2 or it’s more of an anthology kind of approach and we focus on another character, is still kind of up in the air… There’s a running list of what we think could work as a series, what we think could work as a miniseries or a special.” Muto took over as executive producer of Cartoon Network hit “Adventure Time” mid-way through its run, and created the spin-off “Fionna and Cake” in the early days of what was then called HBO Max.

Since then, the streamer — and actually, all streamers — has undergone a reassessment of its adult animation strategy. Because it was part of an already established IP, “Fionna and Cake” managed to keep going and finally premiered its ten episodes in late summer. “Since our show was already in production, it was already cooking, we couldn’t really shift it at that point,” Muto said. “But we were watching a lot of projects around us just get crushed by a rock.

You keep going, rocks are falling around you. It just felt so arbitrary, that there was nothing really we could do. We couldn’t navigate, we could only hope that whatever we were working on fell in line.