Summary
- Lizzie McGuire reboot plot details revealed: Lizzie is an interior designer in NYC, dating a cheating chef, then returns home to California.
- Original cast members would have returned, including Gordo.
- The revival was canceled because Disney was spooked by adult storylines, however, Hilary Duff remains optimistic about the series’ future.
Jonathan Hurwitz, a writer on the now-scrapped Lizzie McGuire reboot, is sharing major plot details from the series. The original Emmy-nominated series aired for two seasons on the Disney Channel beginning in 2001; The Lizzie McGuire Movie followed in 2003. The series followed a teenage Lizzie, whose real thoughts and emotions are expressed by her sarcastic animated alter ego. A reboot, set to stream on Disney+, was announced in 2019, but by 2020, had unfortunately been canceled.
Now, through TikTok, Hurwitz has revealed information on what audiences would have seen Lizzie get up to in her adult years:
“We wrote and shot the first two episodes. Basically, it starts in New York. Lizzie has been working and living there as an interior designer and she’s dating this very, very handsome chef.”
But Lizzie’s life in the Big Apple is hit with a big surprise that sends her back to her childhood home in California:
“She ends up finding that he’s been cheating on her with her best friend and so she, at the end of the pilot, goes home to California to the home we all saw on the original show. She’s in her childhood bedroom where little animated Lizzie has been waiting for her.”
Along with Hilary Duff returning to reprise the titular character, the reboot would have featured original castmates Adam Lamberg (as David “Gordo” Gordon), Jake Thomas (as Lizzie’s younger brother Matt), Hallie Todd (as Lizzie’s mother, Jo), and Robert Carradine (as Lizzie’s dad, Sam).
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Were Lizzie McGuire & Gordo Endgame?
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The Lizzie McGuire Movie concluded with a kiss between besties Lizzie and Gordo, leaving fans to wonder what would have transpired between the two had the Lizzie McGuire universe lived on. When a fan asked Hurwitz if Lizzie and Gordo were “endgame” in the revival, the writer shared:
“You would have got an answer to that in episode two. Lizzie meets up with Gordo — who she’s just kind of been in touch with via text over the years occasionally — and they meet up and Gordo reveals that he is engaged to a woman and she’s pregnant and they’re really happy. So no, in this version, Lizzie and Gordo wouldn’t have ended up together.”
Hurwitz goes on to share that there was a romance brewing between Lizzie and another character from the original series: Ethan Craft (portrayed by Claytown Snider):
“And episode two ends with Lizzie getting a text from Ethan Craft (Clayton Snyder) — and little animated Lizzie faints.”
Hurwitz shared that in the unfilmed third episode of the planned revival:
“Lizzie wakes up in Ethan’s bed in his water polo t-shirt and animated Lizzie pops up and she has this little checklist — like a to-do list — and Ethan is on the list. And she checks it off and I think she says something like, ‘Well, check that box.’ Dramatic pause, ‘Twice!'”
After the revival was dropped in 2020, Duff shared that she felt Disney may have gotten “spooked” by the idea that Lizzie, now in her 30s, would be doing adult things, a sentiment Hurwitz also expressed through TikTok. The writer shared that the romantic interlude between Lizzie and Ethan was “probably” one of the moments Disney was not comfortable with.
Lizzie McGuire fans remain hopeful, as does Duff. During a 2023 appearance on Watch What’s Happens Live, she told host Andy Cohen that she remains “optimistic” about the future of the series.
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