Glow star Marc Maron asks Netflix to let them have a movie finale after series is cancelled
- Netflix cancelled Glow despite previously renewing it for a fourth and final season, prompting Maron to suggest that a film would bring ‘creative closure’
- Filming on the wrestling comedy, which also stars Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin, had earlier been halted due to coronavirus restrictions
Glow: The Movie? Actor Marc Maron is planting that idea to give the Netflix series some creative closure.
Netflix announced its reversal of a Season 4 renewal for Glow this week because of the Covid-19 pandemic and largely cited financial challenges involved in keeping the physically intimate show afloat.
Then a decision was made to ditch the remainder of the season because the increasing costs of shooting safely during the pandemic made it too expensive to continue producing. “You don’t want to do the show any more, but let us make a movie. Right? Let us wrap it up in a two-hour Netflix movie,” Maron said on Instagram Live with his fans.
“They had the whole season laid out. We know where it’s going to go. Why don’t you give the showrunners [Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch], the writers and the cast an opportunity to finish the story in a movie? I think that would be the best thing,” he added.
The WTF podcast host, who played struggling filmmaker Sam Sylvia in the Emmy-winning series, urged fans and followers to tweet at Netflix that they’re upset about the cancellation and perhaps demand a revival. (It wouldn’t be the first time Netflix has changed course on a series or rescued a cancelled one from a competitor.)