“It’s resolution but not closure,” said voice actress Olivia Hack, who’s played Arnold’s prissiest friend, Rhonda since the show began. The film will finally unravel the mystery behind what happened to Arnold’s parents, who went missing when he was a baby. It’s easily the biggest question lingering on fans’ minds since the show wrapped on a cliffhanger in 2004, after five seasons.
“Our goal is to go to series after this. We’re hoping that’s what happens.”
With much of the original team already back on board for The Jungle Movie, everyone seems game to keep the reunion rolling. It helps that Craig Bartlett, creator of Hey Arnold!, kept the hope of making more of the show alive over the years. He kept in touch with cast members like Hack and Andy McAfee, who returns to play shy whiz kid Phoebe, and would bring up The Jungle Movie here and there as time went by.
“I personally didn’t really think anything was going to happen,” McAfee said. “[But then] he said, ‘Well, we did it. We got The Jungle Movie greenlit.’”
Nickelodeon is keen tap into the millennial affection for classic Nicktoons, with Invader Zim and Rocko’s Modern Life also set to get the special revival treatment. But who says the buck has to stop there?
Not Bartlett, who said that he hopes to carry on with new Arnold! adventures for as long as he can, and has a million stories he'd love to tell fans!
“[In season six] they would be in sixth grade and so on, and we would just watch them grow,” Bartlett told the audience during Nickelodeon's “Hey Arnold!: From Hillwood to the Jungle!” NYCC panel about the film. “Maybe eventually they’d even become teenagers.”
When asked about the once-proposed Hey Arnold! spin-off, The Patakis during Nick's NYCC panel, Craig answered "One project at a time. It would be a potential season 6 if support was enough!"
Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie airs Friday, Nov. 24 at 7:00pm ET/PT on Nickelodeon USA, but we’ll have to wait and see if this just the start of something new.
NickSplat, TeenNick’s programming block dedicated to Nickelodeon’s legendary library of hits from the ‘90s and 2000s, will also celebrate Hey Arnold! throughout the month of November with fan-favorite episodes every night from 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m. (ET/PT). In addition, NickSplat will treat fans to a marathon of every single Hey Arnold! episode beginning Friday, Nov. 17, through Friday, Nov. 24, from 11:00 p.m.–6:00 a.m. (ET/PT).
More Nick: Arnold And Crew Are Back In Nickelodeon's "Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie", Premiering Friday, Nov. 24, At 7pm (ET/PT) On Nick USA!
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