The second and final season of Arcane, the wildly popular animated League of Legends spinoff, recently launched on Netflix—and straight into rumours and scuttlebutt that, in fact, the show was once intended to have five seasons. The show's creators have now explained that, while this isn't the case, the idea came out of an in-joke that some took too seriously.
The rumour began with a Variety report last week on Riot's wider entertainment aims, which claimed that Arcane "initially budgeted for a five-season arc." This has now been addressed by co-creators Christian Linke and Alex Yee, speaking to TechRadar, who say it was a misinterpreted joke made by former Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent years ago.
