So, one can only imagine how excited I was when it was announced that the series would be getting a reboot/sequel for Disney+ centred around Lizzie McGuire in her 30s starring Duff and created by original showrunner Terri Minsky. The show would focus on an adult Lizzie and thus deal with more adult subjects and would have an adult tone. Everyone apparently liked this idea, including the executives at Disney, obviously, or else it wouldn’t have been greenlit in the first place. But after two episodes wrapped up, things started to get really messy. Showrunner Terri Minsky was abruptly fired in January and the entire production came to a screeching halt. Disney began finding for her replacement immediately. According to Variety, the studio said: Based on the quote above, if the show were to come to fruition it’s probably going to be something drastically different from what Minsky and Hillary Duff initially had in mind. Minsky said:
I think it’s safe to deduce that the “treatment of going to Hulu” Minsky is referring to is Disney’s decision to move the Love, Simon series from Disney+ to Hulu (also owned by Disney). The studio felt that the series centred around LGBTQ characters and politics isn’t family-friendly enough to be on Disney+ which is, of course, silly but that’s a conversation for another day. Instead of firing Minsky and opting to take a different creative direction, Disney should have parked the series on Hulu and allowed her and Hillary Duff to carry out their vision as planned.
