We don’t hold Netflix to the standards we do other distributors, so when they tout gigantic viewership numbers we just sorta take their word for it. And y’know, I’m okay with that because it doesn’t really matter. If a show isn’t getting watched, we all know it, anyway. Robert Rodriguez’s kid-friendly superhero film We Can Be Heroes always looked like a winner, and sure enough it was, doing enough business to get a sequel green-lit already.
According to Deadline, a sequel to We Can Be Heroes, itself a spinoff of Rodriguez’s film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, has been given a go by Netflix. This comes after they tweeted that the film was viewed in 44 million households between Christmas and New Year’s.
Along with that, Shonda Rhimes’ buzzworthy drama Bridgerton, which everybody on my FB timeline is swooning over, was viewed by 63 million households.
In their first four weeks, it's projected that 63 million households will have courted Shondaland's Bridgerton and 44 million households will have suited up for Robert Rodriguez's We Can Be Heroes, making this our biggest viewing week between Christmas and New Year's ever! pic.twitter.com/dWoLCWn6NO
— Netflix (@netflix) January 4, 2021
We can nitpick that Netflix’s stats don’t actually include full viewings or whatever, but the only thing that matters is they are happy enough to tout successes.
Rodriguez gets a chance to build on his We Can Be Heroes universe, perhaps even convince Taylor Lautner to reprise his Sharkboy role.
