It’s been four months since Netflix decided to cancel Warrior Nun, even after the series proved to be a massive success for the streaming platform. Since that announcement, fans have been actively campaigning against the company, demanding that the series be renewed for at least one more season to give closure to the story of Alba Baptista’s Ava.
The campaign has also included some other streaming services and networks, with the audience asking for a new home for their beloved series. Until now, there has been no news about the future of the project, which was released in 2020 and had some fantastic reviews, although it wasn’t until season 2 that its popularity really exploded.
Even with this challenging circumstance, creator Simon Davis Barry is still hopeful about the future of his creation, as he recently revealed to Empire in a recent interview:
“It really dominates the landscape. It just crystalized how lucky the show is to have this kind of fan engagement. I do know from [Productivity Media], the people who own the rights, that their intention is to find a way to keep going.”
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What’s Warrior Nun About?
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Warrior Nun revolves around the story of a 19-year-old woman who wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she is now part of the ancient Order of the Cruciform Sword, tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces representing both heaven and hell want to find and control her.
Based on the comic book character Warrior Nun Areala by Ben Dunn, the production was initially set as a feature film before Netflix picked it up, and it was turned into a TV show. The series is narrated and led by Portuguese actress Alba Baptista, who’s joined by Toya Turner, Thekla Reuten, Lorena Andrea, Kristina Tonteri-Young, Sylvia De Fanti, and Tristán Ulloa.
The story is based on true events that the comic creator found in the New York Times in 1994 in an article titled Black Belts and Blessings for East Harlem Nuns. The piece told the story of a group of nuns who were part of the French Fraternity Notre-Dame and who, in 1991, were entrusted with the task of opening a soup kitchen in the New York neighborhood of Harlem.
Partly out of love and partly because of the crime on the streets, the leader of the group, Sister Marie Chantal, became a black belt in judo and taekwondo, prompting all her colleagues to follow suit and enroll in self-defense and martial arts classes at different levels.
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