Legacies Showrunner Shares Details On Cancelled Season 5
Legacies showrunner Brett Matthews talks about where the series would've gone in its fifth season, had it not been abruptly canceled by The CW. A spinoff of The Originals, which itself is a spinoff of The Vampire Diaries, Legacies completed four seasons with a total of 68 episodes, airing its finale on June 16. The series starred Danielle Rose Russell, Aria Shahghasemi, Jenny Boyd, Quincy Fouse, and Matt Davis.
Legacies followed Hope Mikaelson (Russell,) a descendant from a powerful supernatural bloodline, as she attends Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted, a school where supernatural beings learn to control their abilities. Legacies'abrupt cancelation comes from the potential selling of The CW since the network decided to offload much of its programming to make it look more attractive to buyers. Other shows including Batwoman, Legends of Tomorrow, Dynasty, and Charmed got the ax as well.
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In an interview with CBR.com Matthews talks about what a fifth season of the show would have looked like. He says the biggest idea was to do a time jump to take the characters out of their high school comfort zone, and how they would deal with the challenges of the outside world. More specifically, he wanted the fifth season to explore Jed (Ben Levin) losing his curse and the relationship between Kaleb (Chris Lee) and Cleo (Omono Okojie.) Read Matthews' quote below:
There were germs of future storylines in the finale. The Jed/Ben curse. The Cleo [Omono Okojie]/Kaleb [Chris Lee] obstacles and the hinting of what the future of those characters are. We would have been in a time-jump scenario. I think the fun of the fifth season would be to really take
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