The third season of Amazon Prime’s Invincible wrapped up last March. Before it appeared, we were promised a fourth season — and now, as we wait for season 4, we’ve gotten word that a fifth has just been ordered.
We’d explain why these orders have to be made so early, but it’s a bit obvious. Remember how interminably LONG the wait between seasons 1 and 2 was? That was because Amazon waited to renew the show until the first season had run in its entirety. The entire animation studio had to be warmed up again; folks had to be hired or rehired, retrained. etc. I believe Invincible himself had to make a video about it:
Amazon has more confidence in the show these days, and it’s led to a more stable production schedule that, Skybound Entertainment hopes, will be able to pump out one new season a year. Now that Invincible is Prime Video’s most watched animated show, Skybound seems to feel confident they can keep going beyond five until the entire Invincible saga is told and every issue of the comic is adapted.
How many seasons would that equal? Creator Robert Kirkman is quoted as saying to the press about eight. “I mean, that sounds ridiculous. A lot of shows don’t last that long. The Walking Dead got to go 11 seasons, which is kind of crazy,” Kirkman said last year. “So I don’t know. I mean, I’m really just focusing on adapting the comic in the most faithful, interesting, enhancing way possible. And so we’ll see what it ends up being.”
There has already been a season of Invincible in 2025, so we’ve entered the waiting period again, but it won’t be nearly as long. The projected release date is 2026, and then possibly the next season in 2027.
Invincible’s current cast stars Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, J.K. Simmons, Seth Rogen, Walton Goggins, Gillian Jacobs, Jason Mantzoukas, Zazie Beetz, Grey DeLisle, Zachary Quinto, Chris Diamantopoulos, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, Andrew Rannells, Kevin Michael Richardson, Ben Schwartz, Clancy Brown, Jay Pharoah, Mark Hamill and Melise Jow. All three existing seasons can be streamed anytime on Amazon Prime.
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