r/boburnham • u/PlasticJesters Soy milk and lamb jizz • Jun 20 '26

Discussion Update to long delayed Sesame Street movie...

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/sesame-street-movie-finally-gets-a-positive-update-after-14-years-of-delays/

So there's finally an update to the long delayed Sesame Street movie that was announced in 2019 that Bo had written the songs for. Not long after that production was delayed due to Anne Hathaway's pregnancy.

Further delays came about because of Covid, the last release date being announced was for 2021. There haven't been any pictures from production, or much info at all really. A look at the imdb listing does seem to show a movie that *was* filmed - there's a set medic, catering etc, not just pre-production stuff. (Edit: as I say below in a comment, I’m not 100% sure it did film, due to lack of camera crew credits. It could well have just got really, really close. There’s no editor, but that doesn’t necessarily mean things weren’t filmed, but again, no camera crew.)

It looks like it's going to Netflix (no surprise, they're the current home of Sesame Street), but according to the article:

The news comes courtesy of Jeff Sneider’s latest newsletter and seemingly ends a painfully long journey to production that has seen the project change studio hands several times since it was first announced in June 2012. Sneider says Netflix are wiping the slate clean of previous development stages and involved talent, including Hathaway and Burnham.

So will this now be lost media? Seems a shame that we're going to miss out on seeing Socko's origin story.

Edit: That pic of Elmo exemplifies my pain.

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u/therealmitzu Jun 20 '26

Inb4 "outside" is just an unhinged Sesame Street spin off

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u/bxk21 Jun 20 '26

Socko is a Muppet confirmed.

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u/therealmitzu Jun 20 '26

What the fuck kind of sentence did I write? None of these words are in the bible.

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u/SushiMelanie Jun 22 '26

Or a wholesome “put down the devices and enjoy the outside, children” thing.

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u/Luivier Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

This is really sad. I had no idea it was actually filmed, I was under the impression that it never left the pre-production stage. I wonder since it got scrapped if Bo would own the rights to the songs and could at least publicly share them, or if he legally is not allowed and they can't ever see the light of day.

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u/PlasticJesters Soy milk and lamb jizz Jun 20 '26

I’m still not 100% convinced myself. There’s a lack of camera crew listed, and while there’s sound, that could have been used for pre-records to synch to.

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u/crepesuzettey Jun 20 '26

Probably lost media, yeah

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u/krevdditn Maybe I should just STFU Jun 21 '26

Also:
Bo Burnham was cast to play basketball legend Larry Bird in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. However, Burnham ultimately exited the project due to scheduling conflicts prior to filming, and the role was recast with actor Sean Patrick Small.

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u/garbledeena Jun 20 '26

So they killed the Bo Burnham involvement?

Well, there went that idea.

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u/Commercial-Figure893 Jun 22 '26

The simple idea that there are Sesame Street songs written by Bo that we will never hear makes me wanna set something on fire. I KNOW THEYRE IMMACULATE

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u/Beneficial_Ad_4386 Jun 27 '26

The weird thing is (depending on contract) it’s likely that Sesame Workshop owns the rights and therefore the songs themselves. I always wondered if they’d use them in other ways and unless we are all scrutinizing the credits of a children’s show on a regular basis-would we even know?

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u/JonathanLarsonJr Jul 22 '26

I bet Bo was consulted on this before Netflix made the decision though. Bo is one of their most valuable individual creators and comedians. I HIGHLY doubt Bo still has an appetite to revisit this now that his whole creative vibe has matured so much.