Overview
- Producers announced on Friday that Justice Smith will play Harris Drover and Charlie Gillespie will play Troy Barrett, names central to Rachel Reid’s Game Changers novels.
- Production has begun in Canada and Crave in Canada plus HBO Max in the U.S. have set Season 2 for a spring 2027 debut.
- Showrunner Jacob Tierney will adapt material from The Long Game while incorporating Role Model, with Mike Goldbach joining as a co‑writer and Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams returning as Ilya and Shane.
- Online fans raised strong objections to Smith’s casting focused on Harris’s book‑described body type, prompting public responses from author Rachel Reid, Justice Smith and the show’s producers.
- Producers have asked fans to give cast and crew space at filming locations, and the season’s expansion of the book world follows Season 1’s breakout success and wide international distribution.