‘You’ Creators Share Telling Truth on Possible Spinoff

The hit Netflix show “You” officially concluded with the much-anticipated release of Season 5 this week. With the series now over, fans are undoubtedly wondering about a possible spinoff series, and the show’s creators recently addressed that possibility.

During a recent interview with TV Insider, co-showrunners Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo weighed in on the prospect of a possible spinoff series that focused on Joe’s son, Henry.

Lo found the idea interesting, but was not completely sold on the idea of continuing the story without Penn Badgley as the primary character.

“I think it’s an interesting concept. I think that part of what makes ‘You’ so successful is Penn Badgley as Joe. I personally haven’t gone down the road of what it would be like for a show centered around his son because I just think that the part of the DNA of You is so much Penn playing Joe,” Lo said.

Foley, however, seemed more open to the idea, and he actually opened up about a “brilliant script” that they had previously pitched that could serve as a pilot for a series following Henry after reconnecting with Joe.

However, he also admitted that there might be legal issues there.

“When we were doing our London season, we were trying to hire a British writer. A writer that we didn’t hire wrote a brilliant script, which was basically that. I’ve read it. This guy’s pilot was the equivalent of the son of Joe and then reconnecting with his father, and it was brilliant, but I almost feel like that’s another reason why I can’t do it, because of a little thing called a lawsuit,” he said.

Needless to say, it sounds like a spinoff could be a possibility at some point in the future, but it’s not currently in the works.

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