Cancelled NBC Series to Return to Netflix Later This Year
In its most miraculous rescue since Lucifer, Netflix is giving Manifest a second chance at life. NBC axed the mysterious series after just three seasons, leaving fans without resolution to several different cliffhangers. After Manifest became a massive streaming hit on Netflix, the service opted to fund a fourth and final season that will consist of 20 additional episodes. Manifest is getting the ending it deserves, and the first episodes of that final season will be arriving at some point in 2022.
Fans have been anxious to see when Netflix would choose to release the final installment of Manifest. The new season is in production right now and is eyeing a premiere "later this year," according to a report from TVLine.
As expected, Manifest's final season will be released in multiple parts, though exactly how many parts is still unknown. The splitting of final seasons has become something of a habit for Netflix, with most of its major hits being broken up into different parts. Ozark and Stranger Things are both being given that treatment in their final installments.
Series creator Jeff Rake originally planned for Manifest to tell its story over the course of six seasons. The series will only get four, but the final 20 episodes on Netflix will be enough to finish the story and resolve all of the cliffhangers.
"The endgame won't change at all," Rake told EW last year. "For those who've been tracking this story through June and July, they'll remember that I was hopeful in the early weeks after cancellation that someone would step up and allow us to make something as modest as a two-hour movie."
"It would have been stressful and would not have been ideal, but I would have figured out my way through it," the creator continued. "Given that I've had to go through the thought exercise this summer of how to get to the original endgame in two episodes, six episodes, or nine episodes, I feel like it's an embarrassment of riches to have to have 20 episodes to tell the rest of the story. So yes, I have always talked about three more seasons — and part of that was chronological, because it's always been my goal get to the series finale in real time in accordance with the five and a half years that the passengers had back — and that might have to adjust somewhat depending on how these episodes roll out. The good news is I am absolutely confident that 20 episodes gives me enough time to tell the entirety of the story as I always intended to. When I've talked in the past about having a roadmap all the way to the end of series, that didn't mean that I had a roadmap for literally every single episode. I have a roadmap with a series of twists and turns and flags in the sand that we would ultimately hit in order to tell the the core stories within our mythology and within our relationship drama. So it will not be a particularly difficult exercise to overlay that same exact roadmap onto 20 episodes. It will be quite organic."
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