Netflix has canceled “Marco Polo,” Variety has confirmed. The Weinstein Co.-produced series streamed for two seasons on the digital service.
Originally developed at Starz, “Marco Polo” premiered in 2014, with its second season debuting earlier this year. It becomes one of only a handful of original series to be canceled by Netflix, including “Bloodline,” “Hemlock Grove,” and “Lillyhammer.”
The series starred Lorenzo Richelmy as the titular Italian explorer and Benedict Wong as Kublai Khan. It was also among the more ambitious and costly efforts in the history f the company’s original series. Season one cost a reported $90 million. Production for that first season included a construction crew of 400 and an art department of 160.
In his 2014 review of the first season for Variety, Brian Lowry wrote, “While ‘Marco Polo’ possesses scope, scale and an inordinate amount of exposed skin, the series exhibits only a sporadic pulse. That leaves a property that can be fun taken strictly on its own terms, but deficient in the binge-worthy qualities upon which Netflix’s distribution system has relied.”
“Marco Polo” was executive produced by John Fusco, Dan Minahan, Joachim Ronning, Espen Sandberg, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Ben Silverman, Chris Grant, Dave Erickson, Peter Friedlander. The series was produced by Electus and the Weinstein Co.
Henry Price
What the fuck I liked that show.
Easton Johnson
RIP in piece.
That show gave me yellow fever.
Parker Garcia
WHAT THE FUCK THEY CANCELLED BLOODLINE??????
Kayden Green
Fuck. I actually really enjoyed that show. Probably need the budget for more tranny shows and Brazilian socialist propaganda.
Nathan Gomez
This what the FUCK
Juan Miller
Fucking Normies. Can't enjoy a good show.
Truth is they can spend 1/4 on some marvel shit and get more viewers.
Zachary Cruz
At least it gets a final season to rap things up.
Landon Ramirez
[Angry Mongolian throat singing intensifies]
Brandon Allen
>make him a Christian convert >make him a pedophile
Bravo netflix
Isaiah Murphy
Didnt he convert to try and atone for being a pedo?
Jaxon Baker
What the fuck? They dropped it on a cliffhanger? Fuck you.
Jack Phillips
Considering how it's actually got a lot of Asian people, you'd think it would be saved by the overseas market.
Why does capeshit get its ass saved there but based Hundred Eyes doesn't?
Jayden Wright
but marco polo was GOOD
Noah Jones
Well fuck I guess I might as well never bother watching Season 2. I am sad.
Charles Hughes
This is an OUTRAGE
Austin Clark
Damn, that was one of the few Netflix shows I liked.
Grayson Sullivan
same
Chase Perry
Yeah, but the Weinstein'a made him that way. i wponder why (((Weinstein ))) hmmmmmmmmmm ;thinking:
John Morris
Season 2 is still a solid second season. There's gunpowder explosions and traumatizing incest and shit.
Lincoln Perez
Didn't House of Cards get cancelled recently as well?
Caleb Morris
The End
Gabriel Morris
Good, fucking dogshit show anyway. Plebiean shit.
Alexander Rodriguez
not any point in keeping it going when rl politics is more interesting at this point 2bh
Logan Myers
Would've been neat to see their take on Prester John, lots of possibilities there.
>On January 28, 2016, Netflix renewed House of Cards for a fifth season, to premiere in 2017.
Seems like we'll get to see at least one more season of some hastily rewritten Trump mockery.
Ethan Davis
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Elijah Butler
I tried watching this show but stopped when the naked Chinese lady killed those guys with Kung-fu.
Carson Ortiz
when i realized the milf babe in the show is actually the joan girl from twin peaks
Oliver Rogers
>as the titular Italian explorer
He was Croatian.
Grayson Robinson
From Dalmatia? The part that was owned by Venice at the time?
Carson Smith
So how the fuck does that make him Italian? You could say he was Venetian since he was part of the Republic of Venice, but you can't say he was Italian.
Isaiah Barnes
The first episode of this show was PURE KINO
It subsequently degrades into corny comic book Wushu antics and gratuitous titties... I can see why they cancelled it but I will miss it.
Connor Rodriguez
The same way Prince Jingim counts as Mongolian, because he was born in a China conquered by Mongols.
Andrew Nguyen
The problem with the show was its title character. Marco Polo was the worst character on the show in S1. S2 was much better with Marco having a more subdued role but honestly that's a basic structural flaw you cant really overcome.
Asher Anderson
I love me some wushu antics and gratuitous titties. RIP in piece you glorious basterd.
Wyatt Reed
But Italy didn't exist back then. Italy's just a geographical construct, anyway.
Michael Diaz
The scicilians think so.
Isaac Jackson
LOL netflix kill shows that are interesting while keep shows about coal burning super heroes alive.
Connor Jenkins
Show could have been so much more had they gone with the story of Genghis and his sons.
>historical inaccuracy everywhere >silly kung fu fights constantly >shitty acting >asian pop stars instead of real substance >literally what? tier plot lines like the arab who likes to get pegged
Justin Butler
It apparently was a big hit in Europe and Asia, but I guess if it's not a big hit in America the rest doesn't matter.
Joseph Campbell
These
Ahmad is a real motherfucker in season two.
Bentley Gutierrez
Shut up you uncle tom nigger
Christian Hernandez
>crusaders in China
Jackson Rodriguez
It's not historically accurate at all. It's basically Mongol Politics + Swashbuckling European Adventure + Wuxia
Joshua Russell
fuck, ill miss the asian qts
Jose James
worth it for that scene desu
Colton Taylor
I just watched the first two seasons of this show and it was finally starting to get good during season two. This is disappointing.
Henry Phillips
Best girl, blue princess can take a hike
Xavier Wood
Maybe if they had a few less asian pop stars and more people who could act, the show wouldn't have gotten canned.
Cameron Gutierrez
Fuck netflix man, I was so into this show. Season 1 was great and season 2 was a big cliffhanger, I thought s3 was going to be some epic culmination God damn it I'm mad
Jonathan Cooper
the only problem was annoying faggot main character marco. they should have focused on based kublai
Ethan Taylor
Fuck, I was just about to watch season 2
Robert Moore
The show is called marco polo, not fatass khan documentary
Dominic Powell
Or just have a show about the mongols without needing a white lead.
Julian Cox
stop bullying kublai
Tbh if they did it right they could have had some nice spinoffs about Genghis and Ogadai. Why did they fuck it up?
Angel Jones
Weinstein Co needs help. They can't get the public to like anything they make.
Asher Harris
Why do they assume a white lead is needed for an audience to get into the show? Don't they know The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air wasn't only watched by blacks?
Colton Cox
Are you joking? This show should have been the spinoff to Genghis.
John Wright
KHAN OF KHANS
James Roberts
There's some movie coming out where they've shoehorned Matt Damon into ancient China.
Tyler Wright
post pics of the qt mongol girl that fucked marco hard in one of the first episodes
Josiah Harris
REEEEEEEEEEEE stop doing this sort of bs, film industry!
Jordan Howard
They didn't fuck it up. The show has great ratings. It just doesn't make money like pleb capeshit and all the other shit that braindead people watch on netflix
John Rogers
You niggers all collectively shit on Marco Polo. Now you're being special snowflake victims about its cancellation.
Everyone in this thread kys
Juan Evans
Daredevil is garbage
Parker Ross
>implying I didn't always enjoy it get fucked
Elijah Cook
You're fucking retarded, you know there are people here with different opinions right?
Ayden Perry
>implying I didn't watch it since day one and love it Fuck off, show was great and it's a fucking loss.
Hudson Martin
"""acting"""
Camden Thomas
Daredevil and the dark knight are the only forms of capekino desu, everything else in the genre is garbage.
Levi Scott
fuck you
Isaac Ortiz
Recommend me some nice comfytvkino if I enjoyed Marco Polo please. Is that new Medici netflix show any good?
Landon Thompson
blue princess developing split personality was a boner killer for me
on the other hand, kutulin's actress is a christfag irl
Sebastian Carter
>Sup Forums is a hivemind
Jack Brooks
>its an australian accent keeps slipping out worse than sam worthington episode
Wyatt Phillips
Why does this surprise anyone? This was Netflix's most expensive show and at the same time one of the worst reviewed.
Isaac Robinson
To be fair to that shitty film, the director himself is said to have sought out Damon, not producers or anything.
Charles Walker
Visually pleasing, good for the ears, but the actual plot is pretty boring.
Definitely worth a watch though, it's just not nearly as engaging as Marco Polo was.
Blake Barnes
Didn't they report that Benedict Wong wasn't signing on to play Khan after the premiere of Season 2? That itself was sort of the nail in the coffin.
Mason Garcia
Can Asians not carry a movie or tv show on their own?
Levi Harris
Hannibal, it's on amazon prime
Ryder Wright
I think it was partially done because the film itself is intended to be marketed to America (it's not China exclusive and it's in English) and, iirc, the director sought out Damon because he's a fan.
Cameron Green
weinstein company is rapidly losing money
Robert Young
>Marco Polo season 3 is kill Goddamn it.
>Lillyhammer is also cancelled whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Blake Garcia
In China they can pretty well, but I think they want an international market to like it as well, pretty sure China wants to get into the business of exporting their movies on a much larger scale.
Thomas Collins
This.
Dominic Garcia
>faggots think shit like this is above capeshit
Just because it's not based on a comic book doesn't make something automatically good.
Carson Garcia
The biggest problem probably was that it wasn't Netflix's answer to Game of Throne in terms of popularity like they had hoped. Hopefully we'll get something similar in the future. Maybe a co-produced Sengoku period series, now that Netflix is in Japan.
Adrian Cook
But it does automatically make it better than capeshit
Andrew Murphy
It has more to do with it being more expensive to produce on a per-episode basis than even GOT
Landon Smith
lol no kiddo it doesnt.
plebs like you are so adorable.
Adam Harris
That's too bad, it was pretty nice.
Noah Sanchez
its a chinese film directed by the top chinese director and white cucks are in an uproar because he wanted based damon in his film
Oliver Johnson
>china's own movies do well in china did you feel like stating the obvious just because?
Hunter Collins
>Seems like we'll get to see at least one more season of some hastily rewritten Trump mockery.
heh.
Season 4 was pretty boring compared to the real life election.
Shouldn't it be ending soon though? I thought 5 would be the last season. Guess they're stretching it out for 6?
David Murphy
id assume he stated it because it means they can go bigger budget if overseas also brings in the dollar like pacific rim doing fairly shit domestically
Alexander Mitchell
Finally, this show was so PROBLEMATIC.
Dylan Thomas
Which I'm gonna pirate. Subscription cancelled.
Oliver Russell
Too bad, I was kinda curious what happened to the missing army
Hunter Hall
kek i didnt even knew it got a second season. it was shit from day one.