The notoriously elusive Donald Glover โ otherwise known as Childish Gambino โ has momentarily returned to Twitter for a saucy announcement regarding the eagerly anticipated Atlanta season 3 and season 4. According to the multihyphenate talent, the follow-up to FXโs critically acclaimed dramedy series will be โsome of the best television ever madeโ which only HBOโs The Sopranos will be able to โtouchโ.
Atlanta season 3 and season 4 were initially scheduled for back-to-back production this year. Like countless other productions, it certainly wasnโt immune to the disruption caused directly by COVID-19. Naturally, this timeline has been pushed back until early next year. Which obviously means it wonโt make the originally intended release date of January 2021.
Similar to the silver lining enjoyed by Dan Harmon and the folks over at Adult Swimโs Rick & Morty, this year-long shutdown has provided ample time to complete Atlantaโs written component โ which FX Chairman John Landgraf has called an โunexpected boonโ. With zero shooting commitments, the scripts for both season 3 and season 4 have firmly been completed.
Gloverโs forthcoming creative output, however, wonโt be limited to the screen. After a monster tear on film ranging from Riddley Scottโs The Martian with Matt Damon, all the way to starring in Disneyโs live-action adaptation of The Lion King alongside Beyonce, Glover has somehow made time to hit the studio and record another album.
The last instalment of his discography was surprise dropped on us all back in mid-March. Hosted on a dedicated site before hitting the associated streaming platforms, this was a project kept under extremely tight wraps, and in regular Donald Glover / Childish Gambino fashion, subverted every conventional means of modern music distribution in favour of preserving the enigma.
โThere is a lof (of magic) coming,โ says Glover.
โYโall thought I was hot in 2018.โ
As for a revised release date, while nothing has been confirmed just yet, we can conceivably expect Atlanta season 3 towards the end of 2021 and Atlanta season 4 mid-2022.
