Cancelled Sequel
Despite the film's poor reception and box office sales, Nickelodeon still expressed interest in releasing a second Hey Arnold! movie, known as Hey Arnold! 2: The Jungle Movie. The film was a continuation of the hour-long series finale "The Journal".
The film's plot has Arnold (now a ten year old) and his classmates travelling to San Lorenzo in Central America after Arnold wins an essay contest. Arnold has a map which he uses to attempt to locate his parents, who have disappeared (He found the map in the one-hour episode). Other major plot lines include Arnold realizing his true feelings for Helga, and Arnold finding his parents.
However, production on the show had ended in 2002, and Craig Bartlett was then working on the show Party Wagon for Nickelodeon's rival cable channel, Cartoon Network, and one of the conditions for producing the film was to work exclusively for Nickelodeon. After Bartlett's refusal to discontinue his work with Cartoon Network, and due to other complications, Nickelodeon decided to cancel the project.
Despite Nickelodeon's disinterest in funding the movie, Bartlett has expressed interest in releasing the sequel as a graphic novel in several interviews, and wishes not to spoil any major plot lines.
In an 2012 interview Bartlett desired the interest to do the movie and another season. Longtime devoted fans still lobby to this day on the internet (specifically, on a custom made Facebook page) to have the dispute that Nick has with Bartlett settled so that the movie can be made.
Read more about this topic: Hey Arnold!: The Movie
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