ARCANE Creator Says It Took 27 Hours to Write the Final Line in the Series
Arcane's co-creator Alex Yee recently opened up about working on the final season of the series and says he spent "an insane amount of time" on writing the final line of the show.
One single line of dialogue took him 27 hours to figure out. While speaking to GamesRadar+, Yee said: "I spent just an insane amount of time on the last line of the show.
“It was literally like 27 hours or something like that. I was just sitting there trying to be like 'what is the line? How do you end a show like this?'"
Yee says that he didn’t want Arcane Season 2 to "feel like a political statement," but he and co-creator Christian Linke say that it's hard to entirely "divorce ourselves" from the real world.
With that in mind, he explains the final line saying: "When we talk about state of the world stuff, or the feeling where you face impossible situations or you look at impossible conflicts, I think in a lot of ways, that line for me is speaking to my own take, or my own kind of hope."
In the series, sisters Jinx (Ella Purnell) and Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) find themselves caught on opposing sides of a conflict in the utopian city of Piltover and its poor underbelly, Zaun.
In the cities of Piltover and Zaun, “tensions rise as inventors, hooligans, politicians, and crime lords grow increasingly dissatisfied with the constraints of a devastated society.
“With the situation on the verge of being unsustainable, two sisters steal an artifact of immeasurable power. Discovery and danger collide as heroes are born and bonds are broken. Will this power change the world? Or will it lead to ruin? This is the world of Arcane.
"Amidst the escalating unrest between the rich, utopian city of Piltover and its seedy, oppressed underbelly of Zaun, sisters Vi and Jinx find themselves on opposing sides of a brewing conflict over clashing convictions and arcane technologies."
When previously talking about the series, Purnell said: "Oh man, I'm trying to remember [season one] because it was over two years ago.
“I actually just went back into the studio to complete some ADR for the Season 2 finale – and I cried. So, I think other people will cry, too. It's devastating, and nobody will feel good after watching it."
Netflix revealed that the final season of Arcane debuted on November 9th and will return in three acts. Act Two debuts on November 16th, and Act Three, the final act, will be released on November 23rd.