One of the big disappointments of these last few years is that, at some point, Netflix was promising a fully animated, fully faithful adaption of Jeff Smith’s comic epic Bone — only to change their minds. The dumping came around April of 2022 when Netflix had their first really bad day in the stock market and came to the realization they did not, in fact, have Infinity Money to spend. Bone was one of the casualties.

This week Lost Media Busters, a social media and Youtube channel dedicated to finding and preserving obscure and neglected material, managed to get ahold of Nick Cross, former co-executive producer of Bone to find out just how far the show got and what was completed, if anything.

Despite being in pre-production for years, the team consisted of just a handful of people working from home until the end. “Besides myself and my other co EP, we had a director, line producer and two writers…” he says, and that was all. Presumably, had production gone on, this would have eventually opened up into a full studio working full time, but it never proceeded that far.

There was an episode order, however: Cross says Netflix greenlit two seasons of nine episodes each, for a total of eighteen. It’s unlikely the entire story could have been crammed into those episodes, so we’re assuming more would’ve been possible if the series hit good numbers.

“We really only got into the writing and design phase. Overall we were in preproduction for a little over a year,” Cross confesses.  It never got big enough for an office and the notice of their firing came via Zoom call. The only image LMB was able to dig up? This one chicken-scratch storyboard of Fone saying “A sludgy trickle.” How apt.

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This is the part where we’d point out Smith is currently crowdfunding a new expanded edition of the Bone books, but that campaign just ended at 9 AM Pacific this morning. It ended up taking in $341,375 from 1,990 backers including myself. Show or no show, he seems to be doing fine these days…

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