To the disappointment of fans everywhere the 'Lizzie McGuire' reboot never made it to air. But now we're getting more insight into plot details of the cancelled reboot! The show, which was set to follow a grown-up version of Hilary Duff's character from the Disney Channel series, was canceled in 2020 due to creative differences between Duff and Disney+ executives. Now in a series of TikTok videos, writer Jonathan Hurwitz revealed what storylines fans could have expected in the first few episodes.
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00:00 "They greenlit a show about a 30-year-old woman, and so we wrote a show about a 30-year-old woman
00:06 doing things that 30-year-old women do."
00:08 Fans were disappointed to say the least when the Lizzie McGuire reboot never made it to air,
00:12 but now we're getting more insight into plot details of the cancelled reboot.
00:16 The show, which was set to follow a grown-up version of Hilary Duff's character from the
00:20 Disney Channel series, was cancelled in 2020 due to creative differences between
00:24 Duff and Disney+ executives. Now, in a series of TikTok videos,
00:28 writer Jonathan Hurwitz revealed what storylines fans could have expected in the first few episodes.
00:34 Episode 1 reportedly started in New York with a 30-year-old Lizzie working as an interior designer.
00:39 "She's dating this very, very handsome chef,
00:42 and she ends up finding that he's been cheating on her with her best friend."
00:46 The betrayal prompts her to head back to her childhood home in California,
00:50 where animated Lizzie is there waiting for her.
00:52 In episode 2, we get answers on if Lizzie and longtime bestie Gordo are endgame.
00:57 "Gordo reveals that he is engaged to a woman and she's pregnant and they're really happy.
01:04 So no, in this version, Lizzie and Gordo would not have ended up together."
01:09 Hurwitz added that the second episode ended with Lizzie getting a message from her childhood crush,
01:13 Ethan Kraft, which led to the controversial third episode, which he believes executives
01:18 took issue with. "Lizzie wakes up in Ethan's bed in his water polo t-shirt,
01:23 and animated Lizzie pops up and she has this little checklist,
01:27 like a to-do list, and Ethan is on the list, and she checks it off."
01:31 Duff previously opened up in a Women's Health interview about the decision to scrap the reboot,
01:36 saying she told the streamer she wanted the new series to feature a more mature Lizzie.
01:40 "She had to be 30 years old doing 30-year-old things. She didn't need to be doing bong rips
01:45 and having one-night stands all the time, but it had to be authentic. I think they got spooked."
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