The reaction to the first season of Willow has not been quite as enthusiastic as Disney probably hoped, with the show being hit by low ratings from audiences despite its critical praise. For showrunner Jonathan Kasdan though, there is a good feeling about a possible second season of the show. While he was quick to point out that nothing has been officially confirmed yet by Disney, he is “eager” to continue the story of Willow into the second of the three planned seasons of the show. Speaking with the Radio Times, Kasdan said:
Of course the biggest aspect of any renewal is the viewership of a series. While there have been no concrete numbers discussed, it has been hinted previously that Willow’s Disney+ debut did not land with the big volumes that had been hoped, especially when compared to other shows on the platform. With that in mind, Willow’s future is still far from certain.
“It’s a strange and unpredictable time here in Hollywood. You see it all over the industry – there are shows that were well on their way to moving forward that haven’t, shows that never expected to be in a second season that are - so you never know where you’re going to be and you never know where the world is going to end up in a year or whatever. But I will tell you that these things take so long to get going and then to make that the attitude and the support from Lucasfilm has been: ‘We definitely want to keep telling these stories, but we don’t know what the future holds.’"
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Jonathan Kasdan came into Willow with a very clear plan of how he wanted the series to look. As he explained, it call comes back to the trilogy formula and he hopes that is what he gets to deliver. He continued:
Willow ended its first season on a cliffhanger, which delivered those who had stuck with the show into the realm of the Wyrm. While this scene provided a few Easter eggs for those with eagle-eyes, the main purpose was to set up the second season. Whether we will see a resolution is something that is currently in the hands of Lucasfilm and Disney to decide.
“Probably the most influential thing in that regard is the original Star Wars trilogy which is such a satisfying and cathartic arc of three stories. You get to set up your characters in the first one and have things go horribly wrong in the second one, and then resolve it in the third one, and as a fan of these kinds of shows and stories, my expectation is that the creators of it. The storytellers have a clear sense of where it’s going to end, and not that they’re in it for the money and are going to keep going for as long as they can, but that they know that there’s a beginning and a middle and an end to their story, and they’re laying seeds of it from the very first scene.”
