Emma Stone and Jonah Hill's trippy Netflix show Maniac has burrowed its way into the minds of anyone who's seen it (whether they loved it or hated), making it a disappointment when a second season was ruled out.

Creator Patrick Somerville said this week that Maniac was only ever "planned as a limited series", and that allowed the creative team "the freedom to have a more hopeful ending".

Somerville also confirmed that there's been no talk of Netflix making any more episodes — but now his fellow producer and director Cary Joji Fukunaga says the future of the show isn't set in stone after all.

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"For me, I like to do one and move onto something else," he admitted to Business Insider. "I'd be very happy if another season were to happen, but I think they were just thinking about this as a limited season and if there's an appetite for another one then I think Patrick would be happy to take it up and do it again. But not with me."

Fukunaga famously left True Detective after its critically-acclaimed first season, and we think everyone remembers that muddled mess that resulted from that creative shake-up.

In his defence, the filmmaker doesn't have much time on his hands these days since he's just signed up for the next Bond.

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It's also not a guarantee Emma Stone would even return for a hypothetical second season of Maniac without Fukunaga, since she recently said his involvement was a key factor in her signing up.

"I loved the idea of working with Cary," she said. "I was a fan of his work, and the concept I thought sounded really fascinating.

"But again, it was a log line. It was a sentence. So once Patrick came on board and really developed it in the way that he did, it was a bunch of moving parts that came together."

Maniac is available to stream on Netflix now.

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