Shadow and Bone creator still hopes the show will "find a place someplace else"

In 2023, Netflix canceled Shadow and Bone, its adaptation of Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse fantasy novels. This came as a blow to fans, not only because they wanted to see the rest of the story, but because it also meant they would never get a planned Six of Crows spinoff series. Netflix didn't just cancel a show. It canceled a whole cinematic universe it was planning.

There were fan campaigns to save the show, a fantasy epic set in a world modeled after czarist Russia. But hopes seemed slim. However, while appearing on a recent episode of Good Morning America to promote her new book The Familiar, author Leigh Bardugo appeared to still be holding out hope for a revival.

"It was true magic to see that happen," Bardugo said about watching her book series come to life onscreen, per The Sun. Obviously she was upset over the cancelation, especially because she thinks there was much more story to tell. "I'm grateful everyday for our incredible cast and incredible writers and I hope that it will find a place someplace else."

There's no guarantee that will happen, but it's not like Hollywood has never rebooted anything before. For example:

Heroes being revived as Heroes: Eclipsed

Heroes was a superhero show that ran for four seasons on NBC between 2006 and 2010, before streaming had really taken over. It followed the lives of ordinary people who found out that they had superpowers and was a huge hit, especially in the first two seasons. Then ratings started to flag and NBC canceled the show rather than foot the bill for the show's huge budget, although it did come back for a 2015 miniseries called Heroes Reborn.

And now, creator Tim Kring is trying to bring the show back again with Heroes: Eclipsed, which will be set years after the original series. According to Deadline, he's shopping the idea around to both NBC and streamers.

There's no word on whether news of Heroes: Eclipsed coming out during the week of the big solar eclipse is planned or just a fun little coincidence. Anyway, on to the next reboot!

R-rated, live-action movie based on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin in the works

Technically, I guess Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles never went away, so I'm not sure whether it can be rebooted; the animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem came out last year and already has a sequel on the way. Still, this is at least a very new angle on it: The Hollywood Reporter reports that Paramount is developing a live-action, R-rated take on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, a comic book series put out by IDW in 2020 that became a massive hit.

The Last Ronin follows a lone member of the Turtles — we don't know which one for a while, since he uses weapons associated with each of them — as he tries to get revenge on the people who murdered his brothers and master. The whole thing is set in a gritty, totalitarian version of New York City. It's wild and it worked.

We don't yet have release dates for Heroes: Eclipsed or the violent Turtles movie, but if these series can get reboots, who's to say that Shadow and Bone has no chance?

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