The previous is coming again to hang-out hunt the surviving Yellowjackets as soon as once more.
A terrifying new teaser trailer that was launched on Saturday throughout fan occasion CCXP 2024 in São Paulo, Brazil, dropped the primary hints at what season three of the hit coming-of-age survival horror sequence has on its menu when it returns on Feb. 14.
The footage (beneath) opens with a warning that the previous will come again to “hunt,” and the phrases are overlaid on high of somebody sporting the Yellowjackets staff survivors’ notorious cannibalism masks, indicating what creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson and co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco have warned us alongside: More cannibalism is coming.
Yellowjackets follows twin timelines prior to now and current to inform the saga of a staff of wildly proficient highschool women soccer gamers (the Yellowjackets) who change into the unfortunate survivors of a aircraft crash deep within the distant northern wilderness.
In the previous timeline, the teaser finds the survivors within the wilderness at their lowest level but following the season two ending, which left the ravenous group with out shelter. “I can’t imagine we didn’t eat them first,” says Sophie Nélisse, who performs younger Shauna (performed by Melanie Lynskey within the current timeline), because the group continues to infight over who’s in cost.
Season two’s 1996 wilderness story left a number of our bodies in its wake (together with one which led to an ensemble feast; one other, a harrowing mourning; and a 3rd that continues to be up within the air) and noticed the teenagers anointing a brand new chief as they flip to cannibalism to outlive amid shedding the home they had been residing in and discovering themselves of their most precarious place but.
In the teaser footage for the present-day timeline, the survivors performed by Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell discover themselves as soon as once more threatened by their previous. “Someone desires to kill us,” says Lynskey’s Shauna. “The solely individuals who find out about this are both us or lifeless,” says Ambrose’s Van. The teaser even contains ghost Jackie (performed by Ella Purnell) coming again to hang-out present-day Shauna.
The first season introduced the grownup survivors collectively when somebody threatened to show their previous. But this time, the reunited group will probably be taking up their subsequent enemy with out one in every of their very own. Missing from the season three forged listing is authentic star Juliette Lewis, who — spoiler alert! — was killed off when her character, grownup Natalie (performed by Sophie Thatcher prior to now) was by chance lethally dosed by Misty (performed by Ricci within the present-day timeline and Samantha Hanratty prior to now). When talking about her departure from the sequence, Lewis left the door open to probably return in some type but in addition mentioned goodbye to the present. “I believed they wrapped up the characters actually superbly, and I simply love good writing, so I used to be joyful to be part of it,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter.
Guest star Hilary Swank additionally makes her debut on the finish of the teaser. She whispers “shit,” seems to be terrified and runs away from one thing horrifying.
The season three forged of Yellowjackets additionally contains Warren Kole, Sarah Desjardins, Elijah Wood returning in a recurring position, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves and Steven Krueger (who performs the Yellowjackets coach). Also becoming a member of the forged in a visitor position is Joel McHale.
Here’s the logline: “The sequence chronicles their descent from a sophisticated however thriving staff to savage clans, whereas additionally monitoring the lives they’ve tried to piece again collectively almost 25 years later, proving that the previous isn’t actually previous and what started out within the wilderness is way from over.“
The first-look photographs (beneath) additionally lend extra perception into season three, together with displaying the teenagers in survival mode and the present-day forged at what might presumably be the funeral for Nat (in the principle picture on the high of the story).
Silvana Estifanos as Teen Britt, Sophie Thatcher as Teen Natalie, Jenna Burgess as Teen Melissa, Jasmin Savoy Brown as Teen Taissa, Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna, Anisa Harris as Teen Robin, Liv Hewson as Teen Van and Samantha Hanratty as Teen Misty in season three.
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Alexa Barajas as Teen Mari, Kevin Alves as Teen Travis, Courtney Eaton as Teen Lottie, Liv Hewson as Teen Van, Silvana Estifanos as Teen Britt, Sophie Thatcher as Teen Natalie and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Teen Taissa in season three.
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Steven Krueger as Ben Scott in season three.
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Melanie Lynskey as Shauna and Sarah Desjardins as Callie Sadecki in season three.
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Christina Ricci as Misty in season three.
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Tawny Cypress as Taissa and Lauren Ambrose as Van season three.
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Simone Kessell as Lottie in season three.
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Yellowjackets is govt produced by Lyle, Nickerson and Lisco. Drew Comins of Creative Engine is govt producer together with Jeff W. Byrd, Sarah L. Thompson, Ameni Rozsa and Brad Van Arragon. The sequence is produced for Showtime by Lionsgate Television and distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution exterior of Paramount+ markets.
Season three launches Feb. 14 with two episodes streaming and on demand for Paramount+ and Paramount+ With Showtime subscribers earlier than its linear Showtime debut two days in a while Sunday, Feb. 16.
