Though the Lizzie McGuire reboot never ever made it to air, author Jonathan Hurwitz is opening up concerning what stories followers can have anticipated in the initial couple of episodes.
The program, which was readied to adhere to a developed variation of Hilary Duff’s personality from the 2001-04 Disney Network collection, was canceled in 2020 as a result of imaginative distinctions in between Duff and Disney+ execs..
In a current TikTok video clip, Hurwitz stated they composed and recorded the initial 2 episodes of the Disney+ collection, which the 3rd episode was likewise composed.
“Basically, it starts in New York,” Hurwitz details of the initial episode’s plot. “Lizzie’s been working and living there as an interior designer, and she’s dating this very, very handsome chef. And she ends up finding that he’s been cheating on her with her best friend.”
That’s when she returns to her youth home in The golden state from the initial collection, where computer animated Lizzie has actually existed awaiting her, Hurwitz proceeded.
When it comes to episode 2, Hurwitz stated Lizzie reconnects with her old friend Gordo (Adam Lamberg). He likewise exposed if the duo were “end game,” after being asked by followers.
“You would have got an answer to that in episode two,” the author clarified.“Lizzie meets up with Gordo, who she’s just kind of been in touch with via text over the years, occasionally. And they meet up, and Gordo reveals that he is engaged, engaged to a woman, and she’s pregnant and they’re really happy. So no, in this version, Lizzie and Gordo would not have ended up together.”
Hurwitz included that the 2nd episode finished with Lizzie obtaining a message from her youth crush, Ethan Craft, which introduced the 3rd episode’s story that never ever obtained recorded. He likewise kept in mind that he thinks Disney had some problems with what occurred in episode 3.
“Episode three wasn’t filmed, but there was a script for it,” Hurwitz stated.“Lizzie wakes up in Ethan’s bed, in his water polo T-shirt. Animated Lizzie pops up and she has this little checklist, like a to-do list, and Ethan is on the list and she checks it off.”
He proceeded,“I think she says something like, ‘checked that box — dramatic pause — twice.’ So if I had to guess, I saw another comment about certain storylines [on] why Disney wasn’t comfortable with it, my guess was … that moment was probably one of them.”
Nevertheless, Hurwitz cleared up in a follow-up video clip that the episode would not have actually consisted of a sex scene.
In 2020, Duff introduced that the Lizzie McGuire resurgence at Disney+ had not been moving forward, composing at the time,“I know the efforts and conversations have been everywhere trying to make a reboot work but, sadly and despite everyone’s best efforts, it isn’t going to happen.”
Disney likewise stated in a declaration,“Lizzie McGuire fans have high expectations for any new stories. Unless and until we are confident we can meet those expectations, we’ve decided to hold off and today, we informed the cast’s representatives that we are not moving forward with the planned series.”
A couple of years later on, Duff opened in a Female’s Health and wellness meeting concerning the choice to junk the reboot, stating she informed the banner she desired the brand-new collection to include an elder Lizzie.
“She had to be 30 years old doing 30-year-old things,” Duff clarified to the publication. “She didn’t need to be doing bong rips and having one-night stands all the time, but it had to be authentic. I think they got spooked.”