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Hilary Duff reveals the Disney+ ‘LIZZIE MCGUIRE’ reboot is cancelled.
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The two episodes should be leaked, so they can be seen and the people can voice their support for the direction and style of the show they were going for.
If they are good that is.
If they are good that is.
They were on board with the show runner and then changed their mind.
Disney definitely wanted this to be a "Girl meets world" style sequel with her having a daughter and going through the exact same plots she went through in the original series. Would have been as bad as GMW too I bet
‘Lizzie McGuire’: How the Disney Plus Revival Ground to a Halt (EXCLUSIVE)
Series star Hilary Duff has remained mostly mum on the subject, but she has made her feelings known in some not-so-subtle ways.variety.com
They wanted a continuation for the fans of the original show, while Disney wanted a kids show. Considering stuff like Girl Meets World was so... whatever... I don't think it was a loss. Not much point in doing a continuation with a completely different target audience, might as well just do a new show. What the show runners wanted would have been far more successful/interesting.
‘Lizzie McGuire’: How the Disney Plus Revival Ground to a Halt (EXCLUSIVE)
Series star Hilary Duff has remained mostly mum on the subject, but she has made her feelings known in some not-so-subtle ways.
Absolutely ridiculous. The audience that would tune in for this show would be adults. Why bother bringing Lizzie back if they weren't going to try and depict the life of an actual adult?
Disney was on board then changed their minds. Essentially it was the whims of executives who never know what they want.
Damn that sucks. I really enjoyed the original show, and to have a character grow up in real time'almost' and deal with more adult issues could have been a really interesting take
I really hate Disney's constant PG squeaky clean image at times. People pay for a streaming service because they want variety ofshows and content
She wanted her 30 year old character with a boyfriend to (gasp!) have an adult relationship with that boyfriend. Disney wanted her to be Jennifer Garner in 13 going on 30.
It's really not that strange for a brand new service to go through these sort of growing pains as they nail down what exactly the brand is and what content they want.
Sucks for fans who would've wanted to see the show evolve that it got sht-canned by execs who wanted to keep the property in arrested development.
this is why it's hard to get excited about any franchise Disney owns; they will never allow bold changes
She was smart enough to understand this which was the motivation behind publicly asking Disney to move the show to Hulu. Shame it didn't work out, but this feels like bad timing for multiple reasons. Reminds me of the 2007 Writers Strike that killed off a lot of promising shows and drastically shortened others. (Sometimes to their benefit.) It's disappointing but part of why I find television storytelling so fascinating.
Disney wanted it to be a Disney Channel-type of show, everyone else wanted it to be an adult sequel to the original series. Trying to get the House of Mouse to sign off on a mature series is like pulling teeth, this was inevitable.
See the transition from Boy Meets World to Girl Meets World if you want to see how Disney imagines these sequel shows should be handled.
See the transition from Boy Meets World to Girl Meets World if you want to see how Disney imagines these sequel shows should be handled.
Really bummed to hear this. It would have been cool to see what the original team wanted to make. Fans who grew up on this show are adults now, so it makes perfect sense to have a more adult themed show. I don't know why they would want to target a younger audience that has no connection to the original show.
I assume they wanted it to be like a Disney Channel show and she wanted it to be more adult-oriented.
Yeah, this.
Yeah, this.
This is so stupid. Disney can be very hardheaded.
I hate how true this is.
Maybe it's because I was in college when the show aired. Some kids I babysat in the summer watched it. But a "real" Lizzie McGuire? I want to see some hypothetical arcs, as I genuinely don't understand how that would be appealing to anyone. It was the archetypal Disney Channel tween dramedy. The characters were fairly shallow with conflicts lacking any real stakes. It was inoffensively disposable to viewers and Disney alike as it was cheap to produce with a fairly limited run.
Oh well, I guess I'll go back to the headcanon story that her character on Younger is a grown up Lizzie.
I doubt it. They've got their whole Marvel and Star Wars thing right now. That's plenty of content to release (and expensive to fund). They will just cycle to the next kids sitcom pitch on the docket with their current rising star and have it on Disney Channel.
The joke about her being a grown woman with her cartoon teen persona trapped inside was actually pretty interesting to me.
I think that show stayed more in the collective consciousness as a show for kids/tweens. It got the Cory in the House spin-off that also gave it more longevity among younger audiences. Then they both got meme'd to hell and back by Millennials and Zoomers, so by time Raven's House came around, it was expected to be more of the same zany kid sitcom content.
Lizzie McGuire never got the same treatment by Disney or audiences, so it didn't stay a constant thing in people's minds.Also, the show wasn't sitcom and instead was your standard comedy show filmed on a full set and it dealt with "heavier" themes than what was present on Disney's sitcoms. They had even intended to make a sequel of the show on ABC where we would see Lizzie go through her high school years and would deal with more serious content (sound familiar?) and the only reason it never panned out was because Hillary was getting a lot of offers and had previously clashed with Disney execs on the direction of the original show.
Both sides have been trying to get an adult Lizzie series off of the ground for years before D+. It's clear Disney got cold feet and decided they wanted to transform the show into a lighthearted sitcom like they did Girl Meets World.
So yeah, my point is expectations were different between Raven's House and this. One has always been a lighthearted comedy and the other had always been planned to be a show that evolved with Lizzie's age.
But they did film a pilot and 2 episodes right ? Those could make it on the service?
I was looking forward to it but I do think here maybe it's Hillary who wanted something not necessarily "Lizzie", im not sure I'd want an adult drama with Lizzie's character, it's have to be fun like the original, the target audience would be kids first and nostalgic adults second but that's just me. Why bother rebooting Lizzie if they're changing what it was.
I was looking forward to it but I do think here maybe it's Hillary who wanted something not necessarily "Lizzie", im not sure I'd want an adult drama with Lizzie's character, it's have to be fun like the original, the target audience would be kids first and nostalgic adults second but that's just me. Why bother rebooting Lizzie if they're changing what it was.
