Following the recent announcement that Jupiter's Legacy will not be returning for a second season on Netflix, several members of the cast took to social media to share their reactions.
Lead Josh Duhamel (The Utopian) previously weighed in with a facetious Instagram post about being "dumped by Netflix" and having to "put himself back out there," but the Transformers actor has now elaborated on why he was so disappointed about the cancellation.
"You know, it’s just disappointing, I’m not gonna lie," Duhamel tells CinemaBlend. "We all worked very hard on that and promoted it very hard and thought we made a really good show, and I think [with] the audience, it performs so well and continues to do really well. We were a little bit surprised by it not getting renewed. For me, I never saw it going more than two or three seasons because that would have fulfilled whatever graphic novels were written for it. And that second season was going to be so much fun because it had the makings of this modern tragedy where some pretty dark stuff happens to The Utopian. And I was excited creatively to do that."
"I’m not sure the reasoning for it. I’m grateful for the opportunity to have done it, and I think we all did a really good job on it. But this is the way of the business, you take your lumps. Just because you got something great, it can be undone. You have to kind of roll with it. It’s disappointing."
Though writer/EP Millar maintains that the door is open for the show to return down the line, he has now turned his attention to a live-action Supercrooks series which will be set in the same universe. While this would potentially allow for characters from Season 1 of Jupiter's Legacy to appear, it's yet to be confirmed if that's on the cards.
Duhamel hasn't completely given up on the prospect of playing The Utopian again, but doesn't believe it's likely to happen. If he was given the opportunity to return to finish the character's arc, however, he fells a feature-length follow up would be the way to go.
"I don’t know if we’re ever going to see him again. Though it sure would have been fun to do that second season. I think they should do a feature, just encapsulating what would have happened in the second season. Not do the full season, but just a feature... I don’t know if they’ll do it or not, but all those costumes are ready to go. And they weren’t cheap, I’ll tell you that much."
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