Hey Arnold! official comeback revealed
The '90s cartoon kid once more returns to screens with Nickelodeon's two-part movie event
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Your support makes all the difference.Though it's already been reported America's favourite football-headed child was set to return to screens, we're now finally getting confirmation of what that comeback will consist of.
With the show originally running 1996-2004, Nickelodeon has once more teamed up with original creator Craig Bartlett to set forth plans for a new project for the character.
And Bartlett has now taken to Instagram to officially announce that a two-part, two-hour movie has been greenlit, now titled Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie.
TVLine has further revealed the film will pick up where the 2004 series finale ended and will, as previously reported, resolve some of the show's hanging threads. Namely, why Arnold's parents were so noticeably absent from his life, spent living in his grandparents' boarding house.
Hopefully, we'll also find out what happened between Arnold and monobrowed bully Helga; especially considering the (controversial, for those truly invested) scene in the 2002 Hey Arnold!: The Movie which saw Helga finally reveal her suppressed feelings for Arnold. Is there a future for the pair, or will she simply revert back to her torturing ways? The people demand answers.
Nickelodeon and Paramount are also apparently moving forward with an Avengers-style team-up movie involving their best-loved characters from the '90s, to be directed by Napoleon Dynamite's Jared Hess.
No release date has been confirmed so far.
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