[Warning: The next accommodates spoilers from Season 1 of Julie and the Phantoms! Learn at your personal danger.]
Within the whirlwind season finale of Julie and the Phantoms, Julie (Madison Reyes) was capable of save her ghost band from an existence-ending curse by serving to them play a present at The Orpheum in Los Angeles and understand they’d no regrets after forming a rocking quartet together with her. The belief additionally appeared to offer them an additional set of powers along with being seen once they play music: They will contact Julie now.
Nevertheless, it wasn’t all excellent news on the finish of the episode. Caleb (Cheyenne Jackson) continues to be hell-bent on getting the boys to play in his band and possessed Julie’s former crush Nick (Sascha Carlson), which may solely spell bother for Julie and her nonetheless undefined relationship with Luke (Charlie Gillespie). Despite the fact that Netflix has not formally introduced a Season 2 for the addictive musical sequence, government producer Kenny Ortega teased that he and the inventive group do not plan to go away anybody hanging after that season ending twist.
“We’re hoping [for Season 2]. We have already obtained our minds going. The inventive juices are flowing,” he advised TV Information. “Dan [Cross] and Dave [Hodge, showrunners] have been desirous about a Season 2 and dealing on concepts for Season 2 for some time now. Hopefully, individuals embrace the present, and we could have that chance come subsequent 12 months.”
After all, if we do get a Season 2, we wish to know what this new contact skill means for Julie and Luke, and whether or not their connection will take a definitive romantic flip after getting so shut after the course of Season 1. Ortega made no guarantees on that entrance, saying that constructing their bond was extra necessary than a romantic crescendo, which is why the 2 did not kiss when the had the prospect within the finale episode.
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“We simply felt that it wasn’t time. The kissing is a really private factor,” Ortega defined. “Take into consideration how they arrive to us: Julie is a 15-year-old woman who’s been grieving the lack of her mom for a 12 months. She has given up music as a result of it reminds her an excessive amount of of the factor that she shared together with her mom so passionately. [Then] three younger boys who come again as ghosts at 17, whose lives had been minimize quick. So kissing was probably not our focus in Season 1. I feel it was about type of discovering the bond between these characters.”
Julie and Luke weren’t the one ones taking it sluggish in Season 1; there’s additionally the matter of Alex (Owen Patrick Joyner) and Willie (Boo Boo Stewart), who do not have as many ghost physics obstacles to beat as Julie and Luke, however nonetheless have not made the soar to a romantic relationship (although the stress was apparent).
“Now we have form of a friendship story between two ghosts, two male ghosts that I feel that positively has the makings of one thing extra romantic,” Ortega teased.
After we’ll formally get to reunite with our new favourite ships just isn’t solely as much as Netflix, but in addition when manufacturing restrictions elevate within the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. When Ortega initially pitched the sequence to Netflix, he additionally floated the thought of Julie and the Phantoms occurring tour — a plan that might nonetheless be within the combine if the present performs properly.
“All the pieces is contingent on on the success of the sequence,” the producer stated. “All of us got here to this figuring out that [a tour] could possibly be a part of the long run for Julie and the Phantoms, however [we] invested every thing into ensuring that we had one thing on this sequence that maybe would have our viewers asking for extra.”
Hey Kenny, that is your viewers talking and we positively need extra.
Julie and the Phantoms is now streaming on Netflix.
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