A Rumor
In 2015, reports came out claiming that NBC was in the middle of developing a Xena reboot series. Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert were set to return as executive producers and the show was to debut sometime in 2016. Insiders also asked for Lucy Lawless to return as Xena and to even have a role in series production. Just a day later though, Lawless tweeted that the Xena reboot is a rumor.
A Rumor
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A few months later, NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt did confirm that the reboot is in development! Entertainment Weekly announced that Javier Grillo-Marxuach would be the writer and producer for the reboot. Grillo-Marxuach wrote on Tumblr that they would be “fully exploring a relationship that could only be shown subtextually in first-run syndication in the 1990s.” Many websites believed that meant that “Xena will be an out and proud lesbian.” He then came out to say that, “It feels like – from a few sentences – everyone has already made up their mind about what it is I am doing. I would prefer people be surprised by the story.” In April 2017, Grillo-Marxuach left the project because of “insurmountable creative differences.”
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