Disney+ announced a 'Lizzie McGuire' spinoff in 2019, but the project was canceled a year later after filming two episodes. Now, Jake Thomas, who played Matt McGuire in the original series, is opening up about what went wrong behind the scenes.

“I had heard rumblings for many years that they were trying to put something together, whether it was another movie or a series or something, but none of those rumors really ever held weight to me,” Thomas recalls. “Then suddenly, it just came together very quickly. And we filmed two episodes at the end of 2019, and unfortunately when we came back January-ish, things had started to fall apart.”

“Then 2020 happened and it was the wrong time, it was the wrong circumstances,” he continues, referring to the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I feel like sometimes it just kind of works out that way. That's Hollywood. That's the way I've always phrased it. It's disappointing, but I was really looking forward to people getting to see the characters again. It was really exciting.”

Thomas explains what he thinks the future holds for Lizzie McGuire fans. While he's keeping mum on what occurred in those two episodes, Thomas teases that viewers were going to see their “favorite characters” from childhood as they navigated “adult issues.”

“Whether or not it will be revisited again in the future, it's very hard to say,” he admits. “I still stay very optimistic about it just because we went from the end of the original series in the movie to the reboot happening, and we had something like 17 years in between.”

“I still think that the show holds such a very special cultural value to a millennial audience, and there's definitely a hunger for that audience to see what their favorite characters are up to these days and how they've adapted to this world. Because they were dealing with the same issues as us as a kid, and it would be very interesting to see their millennial take on it today,” he adds.

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