Los Angeles, United States.
The actress and singer Hilary Duff this Wednesday’s announcement that it has canceled planes to retrieve the “Lizzie McGuire” series (2001-2004) on the Disney + platform.
“I know that efforts and conversations have been on all sides to make a ‘reboot’ (a reinvention, a new beginning of a series), but sadly and despite the best efforts of all, it will not happen,” he said. say today Duff on his official Instagram profile, where he has 16.2 million followers.
“I want any ‘reboot’ of Lizzie be honest and authentic to whoever you are Lizzie today. It’s what the character deserves. We can all take a moment now to mourn the amazing woman she would have been (in this already discarded TV project) and the adventures we would have had with her, ”he added.
In addition, Lily James will play Pamela Anderson in a Hulu series
Duff also says that it has been an honor to play a character who had a great impact on his life and joked that, although this has been a disappointment for her, 2020 has been a year full of misfortunes for all .
Disney also gave its version of what happened.
‘Fans of’Lizzie McGuire‘They have high expectations for any new story,’ the company said in a statement picked up by media outlets like Variety.
“Unless and until we are sure we can meet those expectations, we have decided to curb this and today we have informed the cast representatives that we will not continue with the aircraft for this series,” he added.
The idea of recovering “Lizzie McGuire “ was unveiled in mid-2019, but the gestation of this project has been embroiled in trouble until its final failure.
Terri Minsky, the creator of the original series and who was also going to be in charge of this new stage, abandoned in production the production already underway of “Lizzie McGuire“.
American media then assuring that Duff and Minsky opted for a more adult version of “Lizzie McGuire“, which was originally a series entirely aimed at family audiences.
Disney was not very supportive of this reorientation of “Lizzie McGuire”, so Duff and Minsky proposed that it be taken to the Hulu platform, also of the giant Mickey Mouse but without the childish and family vocation of Disney +.
However, this idea did not have the approval of Disney.