Bad Monkey Season 2: Production Update from Bill Lawrence, Razor Girl Adaptation on Hold

Eight months after the Season 1 finale of the Vince Vaughn-led detective comedy Bad Monkey, and six months after its renewal at Apple TV+, executive producer Bill Lawrence has shared some exciting updates about the upcoming season.

According to Lawrence, writing on Season 2 is nearly complete, and cameras will officially start rolling this fall. "They're almost done in the writers' room," he says. "We already had to shoot a scene from Season 2 in Florida, since production is moving to California, and that starts production in earnest towards the end of September."

While the second season will not be an adaptation of the second Andrew Yancy-centric novel, Razor Girl, it will still have input from author Carl Hiaasen. Lawrence explains that while Razor Girl is a great novel, it's a break from the characters of the first book, and they wanted to have some of the characters from the first season more front and center in the second season. This includes Natalie Martinez's Rosa, who will be a key player in the new story.

Vaughn stars as Andrew Yancy, a police detective who in Season 1 investigated a bizarre crime in the Florida Keys while on suspension from the force. Martinez co-starred as coroner Rosa, who emerged as a love interest for Yancy. The ensemble also included Rob Delaney and Meredith Hagner as married scammers Nick and Eve Stripling, Ronald Peet as Neville, John Ortiz as Ro, Jodie Turner-Smith as Gracie (aka the Dragon Queen), and Michelle Monaghan as Bonnie.

The freshman run of Bad Monkey was based on Hiaasen's 2013 novel Bad Monkey, while Razor Girl was published in 2016. The finale of Season 1 found Yancy and Rosa agreeing to part ways, and Yancy's friend Ro tempting him to look into another case.

Stay tuned for more updates on Bad Monkey Season 2 as they become available.