The past returns track hunt down the survivors Yellowjackets Once again.

A chilling new teaser trailer released on Saturday during the CCXP 2024 fan event in São Paulo, Brazil, gave the first hints at what the third season of the hit coming-of-age survival horror series will bring when it returns February is on the agenda. 14.

The footage (below) begins with a warning that the past will return to the “hunt,” and the words are overlaid over someone wearing the Yellowjackets team’s infamous cannibalism mask, hinting at what creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson and co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco warned us: There’s more cannibalism to come.

Yellowjackets follows two timelines, past and present, to tell the saga of a team of extremely talented high school girls soccer players (the Yellowjackets) who become the unfortunate survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness.

In the past timeline, the teaser shows the survivors in the wilderness at their lowest point yet following the end of season two, which left the starving group homeless. “I can’t believe we didn’t eat them first,” says Sophie Nélisse, who plays young Shauna (played by Melanie Lynskey in the current timeline), as the group continues to argue over who’s in charge.

The 1996 Season 2 wilderness story left several corpses (including one that led to an ensemble feast, another to a harrowing grief, and a third that remains in limbo) and saw the teenagers appoint a new leader while They turned to cannibalism to survive while losing the home they lived in and finding themselves in their most precarious situation yet.

In present-day timeline teaser footage, the survivors, played by Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell, are once again threatened by their past. “Someone wants to kill us,” says Lynskey’s Shauna. “The only people who know about this are either us or the dead,” says Van von Ambrose. The teaser even shows the ghost Jackie (played by Ella Purnell) coming back to haunt present-day Shauna.

The first season brought the adult survivors together when someone threatened to expose their past. But this time, the reunited group will face their next enemy without an enemy of their own. Missing from the cast list for season three is original star Juliette Lewis, who – Spoiler alert! – was killed when her character, the adult Natalie (played by Sophie Thatcher in the past), was accidentally given a lethal dose by Misty (played by Ricci in the present timeline and Samantha Hanratty in the past). When discussing her exit from the series, Lewis left the door open to possibly returning in some form, but also said goodbye to the show. “I thought they captured the characters really well, and I just love good writing, so I was happy to be a part of it,” she said The Hollywood Reporter.

At the end of the teaser, guest star Hilary Swank also makes her debut. She whispers “shit,” seems scared, and runs away from something terrible.

The cast of the third season of Yellowjackets Also starring are Warren Kole, Sarah Desjardins, Elijah Wood, who returns in a recurring role, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves and Steven Krueger (who plays the Yellowjackets coach). Joel McHale also appears in the cast in a guest role.

Here’s the logline: “The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to fierce clans while chronicling the lives they tried to piece back together nearly 25 years later, proving that the past is never truly past and what began in the wilderness is far from over.”

The first photos (below) also give more insight into the third season, showing, among other things, the teenagers in survival mode and the current cast at what could presumably be Nat’s funeral (in the main photo at the top of the story). .

Yellowjackets is executive produced by Lyle, Nickerson and Lisco. Creative Engine’s Drew Comins is executive producing along with Jeff W. Byrd, Sarah L. Thompson, Ameni Rozsa and Brad Van Arragon. The series is produced for Showtime by Lionsgate Television and distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution outside the Paramount+ markets.

The third season premieres on February 14th with two episodes streaming and on-demand for Paramount+ and Paramount+ With Showtime subscribers ahead of its linear Showtime debut two days later on Sunday, February 16.