On the heels of WrestleMania 39, Stephen Amell is giving wrestling followers one thing to have fun.
The actor shared new footage for the long-awaited Season 2 of his Starz wrestling drama, Heels on Twitter Saturday. In keeping with Amell, the brand new season will arrive this summer time and can take the DWL to “one other stage.”
The sequence follows Jack Spade (Amell), a household man and wrestler with large goals to broaden the Duffy Wrestling League past its small-town roots — which is made much more tough by rival firm Florida Wrestling Dystopia trying to poach his child brother Ace (Alexander Ludwig).
The Season 2 clip (watch it beneath) exhibits a flashback to when Jack and his brother had been pleasant, a far cry from their real-life-brawl within the Season 1 finale. Its freshman season ended on Oct. 10, 2021 with Jack and Ace exchanging blows, and Crystal (Kelli Berglund) changing into the DWL’s first feminine champion. Sequence creator Michael Waldron (Loki) beforehand opened as much as TVLine about his hopes for Season 2, together with the potential to discover the fallout from that essential occasion match.
This summer time the DWL goes to a different stage… however first… you must see how it began. #HeelsS2 pic.twitter.com/UtXinkMghp
— Stephen Amell (@StephenAmell) April 1, 2023
Along with Amell, Ludwig and Berglund, Heels additionally stars Chris Bauer, Mike O’Malley (who additionally serves as showrunner), Allen Maldonado, James Harrison, Alison Luff and Mary McCormack.
Amell’s announcement comes months after his visitor look on Michael Rosenbaum’s podcast, Inside of You, the place he revealed that the new season was delayed due to Lionsgate’s split from Starz, which they acquired again in 2016 for $4.4 billion.
On the time the podcast was recorded in September 2022, Amell stated they had been “untangling every little thing, they’re determining which belongings belong to whom. So in consequence, we wrapped filming [Season 2] on the primary of July and we don’t have a premiere date, not to mention a trailer, not to mention a sign of Season 3.”
He added: “I do know there are conferences which might be beginning to occur about writing for Season 3.”
