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Jonathan Hurwitz, writer of the aborted reboot of the hit Disney Channel series, reveals what Lizzie (Hilary Duff) and her friends would have done in the ultimately scrapped Disney+ series.
“We wrote and filmed the first two episodes,” he explained of the series, which Duff, 36, announced would not be continuing in December 2022 on TikTok. “Mostly, it starts in New York. Lizzie works and lives there as an interior designer and is dating this very, very hot chef.”
However, in the first episode, Hurwitz said that Lizzie discovers that all is not as it seems in the Big Apple.
“She ends up finding out that he cheated on her with her best friend and so she, at the end of the pilot, goes home to California to the home that we all saw in the original show,” he explained. “She’s in her childhood bedroom where a little animated Lizzie was waiting for her.”
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Hurwitz also responded to a comment from a fan who asked if Lizzie and her best friend David “Gordo” Gordon (Adam Lamberg) were “game over.” He shared, “You would get the answer in the second episode.”
As fans may recall, Lizzie and Gordo, along with Miranda Sanchez (Lalaine), were best friends during their teenage years for two seasons Lizzie McGuire aired on the Disney Channel between 2001 and 2004.
IN Lizzie McGuire Movie, the 2003 theatrical film ended with Lizzie and Gordo kissing on top of their Italian hotel after her adventures in Rome. However, fans never got to see what came of that romantic moment than any other Lizzie-related projects followed.
According to Hurwitz, in the reboot, “Lizzie meets up with Gordo — who she’s only kind of kept in touch with over the years by text occasionally — and they meet and Gordo discovers that he’s engaged to a woman and that she’s pregnant and they’re really alone happy. So no, in this version Lizzie and Gordo wouldn’t end up together.”
“And the second episode ends with Lizzie getting a text from Ethan Craft (Clayton Snyder) — and little animated Lizzie fainting,” he revealed, referring to Lizzie’s longtime teenage crush.
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The writer also criticized the third episode of the future series, which was not filmed, but the script was completed.
Of the plot, he noted, “Lizzie wakes up in Ethan’s bed in his water polo shirt and an animated Lizzie appears and she has this little checklist — like a to-do list — and Ethan is on the list. And she ticks it and I think she says something like, ‘Well, tick that box.’ Dramatic pause, ‘Twice!'”
Hurwitz also responded to another comment asking if there were certain stories that Disney wasn’t “comfortable with” in the reboot. He claimed: “That moment was probably one of them.”
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Duff previously spoke about the reboot’s proposed premise in an interview for 2022 Cosmopolitan.
“My character was moving back home with her parents because she caught her fiancé-to-be cheating on her,” she told the magazine. “At that point she fell on her face and said, ‘I have to turn around because everything I thought was wrong and I’m turning 30. What the fuck?'”
During the performance at Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in January 2023, the actress and singer said she would still be open to revisiting the early 2000s hit series if it was in line with her desire to play a more grown-up Lizzie after the canceled reboot.
“Disney+ was very new,” she told host Andy Cohen WWHL, taking a moment to gather her thoughts as she explained to Cohen what initially happened with the first round of plans. “And I think they were coming up with their own…” she said, falling silent, “and we were coming up with ours…”
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– I am optimistic – she added.
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