‘Lizzie McGuire’ Revival: Everything Hilary Duff Has Said About The Canceled Series

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Image Credit: Walt Disney/Everett Collection The Lizzie McGuire revival bid was announced successful 2019. The amusement was scrapped by Disney successful 2020. Hilary Duff has addressed the show’s cancellation respective times.

Lizzie McGuire is 1 of the astir fashionable shows from Disney Channel ever, truthful it truly wounded erstwhile the planned revival series connected Disney+ got canceled. Hilary Duff was acceptable to reprise her beloved relation arsenic Lizzie, present surviving successful New York successful her 30s. The histrion adjacent filmed 2 episodes, earlier Disney scrapped the amusement successful 2020 due to the fact that of behind-the-scenes originative differences. Even though Lizzie McGuire made a cameo successful Hilary’s caller deed amusement How I Met Your Father, Hilary is inactive disappointed that the revival bid didn’t happen.

There’s been a batch of stories astir what happened with the Lizzie McGuire revival. HollywoodLife has each the details astir what went incorrect and Hilary’s sentiment connected the matter.

Hilary Duff arsenic Lizzie McGuire (Photo: Walt Disney/Everett Collection)

Is The Lizzie McGuire Revival Happening?

As of now, there’s nary plans to resume enactment connected a Lizzie McGuire revival. The planned amusement was archetypal announced astatine Disney’s D23 Expo successful August 2019. It was revealed astatine the clip that Hilary would instrumentality to the relation that she played successful 2 seasons of the show, that aired from 2001 to 2004, and The Lizzie McGuire Movie, which came retired successful 2003 and took spot successful Rome, Italy. Hilary was besides going to beryllium an enforcement shaper connected the project. The show’s creator, Terri Minsky, was acceptable to instrumentality for the bid that would travel Lizzie successful her 30s arsenic she lives her beingness successful New York. At the clip of the announcement, Hilary wrote connected Instagram that she was “so excited” to instrumentality to the beloved role.

Production connected the Lizzie McGuire revival started successful Oct. 2019. Hilary was spotted retired filming scenes successful New York. Original formed members Adam Lamberg, Hallie Todd, Robert Carradine, and Jake Thomas were each confirmed to beryllium returning arsenic well. At the time, fans were truthful excited astir the revival, and it seemed similar creaseless sailing ahead. Until it wasn’t.

Why Was The Lizzie McGuire Revival Canceled?

There seemed to beryllium issues with the Lizzie McGuire revival from the beginning. In Jan. 2020, aft the archetypal 2 episodes were filmed, Terri stepped distant from her relation arsenic showrunner of the revival due to the fact that of creative differences and the wide imaginativeness for Lizzie. Filming was enactment connected clasp and behind-the-scenes hostility continued. That February, Hilary urged Disney+ to let the revival to determination to Hulu truthful the amusement could person much mature storylines. She did truthful aft Love, Victor, the Love, Simon sequel series, was moved from Disney+ to Hulu aft reports that Disney+ believed its crippled — astir a precocious schoolhouse pupil struggling with his intersexual predisposition — didn’t acceptable its household affable standards.

Hilary Duff (Photo: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock)

“Was incredibly excited to launch Lizzie connected D+ and my passionateness remains! However, I consciousness a immense work to grant the fans’ narration with Lizzie, who, similar me, grew up seeing themselves successful her,” Hilary wrote in a statement connected her Instagram relationship astatine the time. “I’d beryllium doing a disservice to everyone by constricted the realities of a 30-year-old’s travel to unrecorded nether the ceiling of a PG rating. It’s important to maine that conscionable arsenic her experiences a preteen/teenager navigating beingness were authentic, her adjacent chapters are arsenic arsenic existent and relatable. It would beryllium a imagination if Disney would fto america determination the amusement to Hulu, if they were interested, and I could bring this beloved quality to beingness again,” Hilary concluded.

In March 2020, The Hollywood Reporter released a study that offered penetration arsenic to what was going connected behind-the-scenes with the revival. The lengthy portion claimed that the archetypal occurrence publication acknowledged cheating and intimacy arsenic a cardinal crippled constituent — thing Disney+ execs, who worth its household and kid affable content, allegedly took contented with. Production connected the amusement remained paused until December 2020, erstwhile Hilary confirmed the revival bid was canceled.

Lalaine, Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg successful ‘Lizzie McGuire’ (Photo: Walt Disney Enterprises / Everett Collection)

“I’ve been truthful honored to person the quality of Lizzie successful my life,” she wrote successful an Instagram message. “She has made specified a lasting interaction connected many, including myself. To spot fans’ loyalty and emotion for her, to this day, means truthful overmuch to me. I cognize the efforts and conversations person been everyplace trying to marque a reboot enactment but, sadly and contempt everyone’s champion efforts, it isn’t going to happen. I privation immoderate reboot of Lizzie to beryllium honorable and authentic to who Lizzle would beryllium today. It’s what the quality deserves. We tin each instrumentality a infinitesimal to mourn the astonishing pistillate she would person been and the adventures we would person taken with her. I’m precise sad, but I committedness everyone tried their champion and the stars conscionable didn’t align. Hey no, this is what 2020s made of.”

What Hilary Duff Has Said About The Lizzie McGuire Revival

Hilary has spoken retired astir the scrapped revival bid since Disney made their large decision. In a May 2021 interrogation on The Jess Cagle Show, Hilary explained explained that she and Disney disagreed connected Lizzie’s storyline for the show. “I deliberation they are truly trying to fig retired what benignant of contented they privation surviving connected Disney+, and that doesn’t wholly align with, like, wherever I spot Lizzie close now,” she said. “I’m precise protective of her and they’re precise protective of her. It lone makes consciousness to maine to sprout a amusement wherever she’s acting similar a 30-year-old successful a modern world. And determination was a batch of originative discussions wherever they were possibly reasoning that’s not right. But I don’t cognize it’s going to beryllium happening.”

Hilary Duff arsenic Lizzie McGuire (Photo: Everett Collection)

Hilary told Cosmopolitan in Jan. 2022 immoderate of Lizzie’s storyline that fans would’ve seen successful the revival series. “My quality was moving backmost location with her parents due to the fact that she caught her soon-to-be fiancé cheating connected her,” Hilary revealed. “She was falling level connected her look astatine the infinitesimal and being like, ‘I request to pivot due to the fact that everything that I thought was wasn’t, and I’m turning 30. What the f***.’ ”

When she appeared connected Watch What Happens Live successful Jan. 2023, Hilary amazed fans erstwhile she said that she’s “optimistic” astir different revival happening successful the future. The quality of Lizzie ended up making a cameo successful a flashback scene connected the March 7, 2023 occurrence of How I Met Your Father. Hilary talked astir the Lizzie quality successful a June 2023 interrogation with Shape, and said, “I don’t deliberation it was capable to fulfill the information that project is shelved.”

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