It’s been three years since it was announced that the Lizzie McGuire reboot series was not going to be moving forward at Disney+. Hilary Duff had hoped that the series could make a streamer change and hop over to Hulu before the series was declared dead, but it wasn’t meant to be, and Disney shut it down. The company, which was home to the original series, said the reboot was too adult for their target audience, but the funny part was that the kids and teens who had been the biggest fans of the original series are adults now, and I think they would have liked a more grown up theme.
Jonathan Hurwitz, one of the writers of the series, has opened up about the show’s storyline in a series of TikToks, where he explained that the first two episodes of Lizzie McGuire were written and shot, with the pilot showing Lizzie as an interior designer in New York. After Lizzie’s chef boyfriend cheats on her with her best friend, Lizzie moves back home to California, where she reunites with her animated mascot. Episode 2 would have shown a reunion between Lizzie and her childhood-friend-turned-love-interest Gordo (Adam Lamberg), which ends with her learning that he is happily engaged and expecting a baby. The episode would have ended with Lizzie getting a text from her childhood crush, Ethan Craft (Clayton Snyder), with the opening of Episode 3 insinuating that they slept together.
Hurwitz revealed:
“Episode 3 wasn’t filmed, but there was a script for it. 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. I think she says something like, ‘I checked that box –dramatic pause– twice.’ So if I had to guess, I saw another comment about certain storylines [about] why Disney wasn’t comfortable with it, my guess was… that moment was probably one of them.”
It’s too bad that this series didn’t pan out. I think the fans of the series would have enjoyed it. Maybe it could still happen one day, but for now, you can watch the original series on Disney+.
via: CB
