Why Spear Was Resurrected for Primal Season 3 | IGN Fan Fest 2026

As portion of IGN Fan Fest 2026, bid creator Genndy Tartakovsky stopped by the IGN workplace to speech each astir the instrumentality of Primal, the challenges successful resurrecting its main quality Spear.

"What truly gets amped up successful the 3rd season, I think, is the, really, the affectional stakes," Tartakovsky told IGN. "I deliberation they're adjacent bigger than thing that we've done. Because you're invested already successful the character, there's a accent and anxiousness close astatine the beginning. That's the feedback I've been getting backmost from radical that ticker it and that's great. The imagination is to person radical attraction for your characters."

One of the large challenges was bringing backmost Spear, who fans mightiness retrieve met an unfortunate extremity astatine the hands of a Viking chieftain. Tartakovsky explained the determination to bring him back.

"Basically, I thought, astatine the extremity of Season 2, that was benignant of it and I wanted Primal to beryllium benignant of everlasting," helium said. "And truthful I consciousness similar I'm finished with it, but past aft I instrumentality a small break, I realized, 'Oh no, it's inactive truthful fresh.' And past the effect is truly strong, and past you commencement to deliberation about, I conscionable spent 20 episodes getting to make these characters, and for radical to truly similar them. And past I termination 1 off, and past it's the extremity of the show.

"I realized it's excessively early, and what bash I bash now? Basically this thought popped up. Initially, the idea's astir similar a gag but arsenic I started to deliberation astir it, each these astonishing communicative elements and affectional elements came out. For everything that I've ever done, I've ever conscionable trusted my gut, and my instincts said 'this is good.' I talked to the squad and pitched it to everybody, and everybody was connected board."

Watch Tartakovsky speech much astir Spear, ideas helium had for an anthology series, and who would past successful the satellite of Primal betwixt Dracula, Samurai Jack, oregon Dexter, successful the video above.

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Rachel Weber is the Head of Editorial Development astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, Red Dead Redemption 2, and her Love and Deepspace boyfriends.