Jupiter's Legacy star Josh Duhamel admitted it's "disappointing" the series didn't get picked up by Netflix for a second season.
"You know, it’s just disappointing, I'm not gonna lie," the actor recently told 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."
Duhamel, who portrayed The Utopian in Season 1, added that he and the rest of the cast "were a little bit surprised" that the show didn't get renewed." He noted, "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," he continued. "And I was excited creatively to do that."
The actor revealed, however, that he is "grateful for the opportunity to have done it," explaining, "And I think we all did a really good job on it." Duhamel continued, "But this is the way of the business, you take your lumps" and said that "Just because you got something great, it can be undone. You have to kind of roll with it. It's disappointing."
Following the announcement that Netflix had decided not to pick up the show, Duhamel took to Instagram to try and court Hulu. At the time, Duhamel posted a shirtless selfie of himself wearing the gray wig he wore as The Utopian. He wrote in the caption, "When you get dumped by @netflix and have to put yourself back out there..." He also added the hashtag "#SexySantaSummer" and the pointed question, "What's up, @hulu?" Hulu's Instagram account eventually responded with the quip, "Oh yeah...we up!"
Despite the cancellation, Netflix recently confirmed plans to continue the Millarworld universe with the planned spinoff Supercrooks. Other Millarworld projects currently in the works at the streaming giant include a series based on Millar's American Jesus, as well as films based on Millar and Greg Capullo's Reborn and The Magic Order and Millar and Stuart Immonen's Empress.
Netflix's Jupiter's Legacy stars Josh Duhamel as The Utopian, Ben Daniels as Brainwave, Leslie Bibb as Lady Liberty, Elena Kampouris as Chloe Sampson, Andrew Horton as Brandon Sampson, Mike Wade as The Flare, Anna Akana as Raikou and Matt Lanter as Skyfox. Season 1 is available on Netflix now.
Source: CinemaBlend