After being simply canceled by NBC after its third season, Manifest moved to Netflix to finish the story. The popular mystery series has a final season of 20 episodes on the way, and it looks like the cast and crew will be back to start putting together this final episode. Netflix hasn’t officially revealed any official release dates or signs for Manifest Season 4.
Two months after being canceled by NBC, the news comes after weeks of back and forth between Netflix and Warner Bros TV and was announced at 08.28 on 28/08.
creator Jeff Rake spoke in an interview with Entertainment Weekly about the series. He was referring to the titular characters of “manifest”, all of whom were presumed dead for years before their plane landed in New York City. The show follows a brother and sister duo—Dallas and Roxburgh—as they attempt to pick up the pieces and find out what really happened to them.
Netflix’s (The Politician) decision to update Manifest for a fourth season comes two months after the show hit the platform. According to the Hollywood Reporter, 25 million Netflix (The Last Kingdom) accounts in the US and Canada watched the show in its first month on the streaming platform. Even after Manifest dipped from the top spot, it continued to dominate Netflix’s charts: In August, Nielson confirmed that Manifest had broken streaming rating records with over a billion views a week for six straight weeks. And in September, Manifest was the third show in Netflix history to be in the Top 10 for a hundred days.
Manifest Season 4: Release Date
Netflix Life estimates that we won’t see a fourth season of Manifest until spring 2022 (this is their earliest estimation). But even that is an optimistic timeline: the updates are unexpected, so the next chapter of Manifest still needs to be developed from scratch, getting written, filmed, going through post-production, and so on.
What’s on Netflix reported in October that season four of Manifest would begin filming in New York in November 2021, citing “many production schedules.” This goes hand in hand with what creator Rake told: “I’m hoping the camera will launch in November or December [2021] at the very least… It might take a minute for a new batch of episodes to show up in people’s homes, but it’ll be worth the wait. “
In October, Rake tweeted about how the writers’ room was working hard. On the same month, Empire State Grips posted that pre-production for Manifest was well underway. What’s on Netflix has confirmed that this season will be filmed in New York, just like the previous seasons.
Manifest Season 4 Plot: What Will Happen?
It looks like a lot of things will happen, but the creators of Rake had to work hard to fit three planned seasons worth of plot into those 20 episodes to reach a fitting conclusion. In his EW interview, he said: “The ending game won’t change at all… I really believe that 20 episodes gives me enough time to tell the whole story the way I’ve always wanted to.”
Rake hints of a possible Part One and Part Two of season four: “I don’t think it’s decided yet. I don’t think it’s ultimately my decision. I’ll definitely have that conversation with Netflix. I’ll offer my opinion. I’m sure we’ll come together and come up with the most plausible game plan for the show.”
Manifest Season 4: Cast
According to Deadline’s Andreeva, the cast were no longer legally bound to the show after June. Thankfully, most of the cast signed an agreement in September following the continuation of the show. Excluding the character who died at the end of season three and the character who unexpectedly ages (no spoilers!), everyone will be back.
Meanwhile, characters who are unexpectedly aging and needs to be played by new actors—I’m trying really hard to avoid spoilers, you guys—are replaced by older actors featured at the end of the season three. It’s a shame, because the characters who died at the end of season three were crucial to the first three seasons of Manifest and its success so far. according to Andreeva, the remaining cast would receive “a sizeable pay raise.” For season four.
Matt Long, who plays Zeke Landon, has promised to return in a certain capacity, but has stepped into a new Getaway show following the cancellation of Manifest. Long told Deadline: “I’ll be back for [Manifest], we’re just trying to calculate out the most that I can do… We’re just trying to work out a schedule.” However, by October, NBC has decided to discontinue Getaway, leaving the door open for Long to return to the show.
Manifest Season 4 Trailer
Until now, Netflix has not updated the trailer for season 4 of the Manifest. For readers who want to start watching this series, we have attached a link to the previous manifest series.
