Netflix has cancelled the city fantasy drama The Grimm Reality from the producers of Dark, regardless of the undertaking having completed filming.
As reported by Deadline, Netflix has pulled the plug on The Grimm Reality earlier than its launch on the streaming platform. The collection hailed from Till Kleinert and Erol Yesilkaya, with Dark manufacturing staff Wiedemann & Berg additionally concerned with the undertaking, which reportedly started filming in late 2022 and had wrapped manufacturing.
What’s on Netflix, which first broke the information of the present, described The Grimm Reality as a “fairy story city fantasy thriller,” possible impressed by the folks tales of the Brothers Grimm. It was one in all a number of tasks Wiedemann & Berg had within the works with Netflix following the success of Dark, which ran for 3 seasons.
Dark debuted in 2017 as Netflix’s first German-language authentic collection and acquired widespread reward for its writing, performing, directing, and extra. IGN gave the third and closing season, which hit the streamer in 2020, a 9/10, saying it efficiently “delivers a satisfying conclusion to one in all Netflix’s most mind-bending reveals.”
The motive for the unceremonious cancelling of The Grimm Reality is unclear, however it’s not the primary time tasks have confronted the axe earlier than launch. Netflix has additionally cancelled collection’ with devoted fanbases prior to now, comparable to Warrior Nun, whereas typically saving these dropped by different networks or streamers, like Lucifer.
Netflix has been upfront in recent times about which reveals it intends to resume and which reveals will likely be cancelled, however for a lot of, sadly, it is an unlucky destiny.
Adele Ankers-Range is a contract leisure author for IGN. You can observe her on X/Twitter here.
