It’s been five years since the Steven Universe saga ended, via a final season and movie that took the story into the future. Now, it’s coming back, . Prime Video is working on a sequel series, with franchise creator Rebecca Sugar in tow as an executive producer
This doesn’t look to be a straight sequel series, in that the focus is shifting away from Steven, the Crystal Gems and Beach City. Instead, the tentatively-titled Steven Universe: Lars of the Stars will follow punk rock slacker Lars Barriga and his ragtag band of space pirates.
Spoiler time: Just about every character got a cool arc in the main series, but Lars was one of the standouts. He started as a selfish jerk stuck at a dead-end job, but finished the show as the captain of an actual starship trying to make a difference in the universe.
Deadline says the new episodes will follow the “space outlaw as he and his pirate crew smuggle contraband, evade the authorities and uncover the darkest secrets of the fallen Gem Empire.” So this looks to be a series that will largely take place in space, exploring the fallout of the final episodes of the main show. We don’t know which, if any, of Steven Universe’s main characters will show up or in what capacity.
The news was revealed by Sugar at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. She went on to say that she misses “my world and my characters” and that she “can’t wait to share [the sequel] with you and can’t thank you enough for all your support.” Sugar’s long-time production partner, Ian Jones-Quartey, is also involved.
We don’t have a release date for this, which gives you plenty of time to catch up on the OG show and the movie. There are 160 episodes, so buckle up. Once that’s done, there are .
