While the trilogy had finished filming in September 2019, the series was place in a questionable status with the early termination of the Chernin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox production deal. On April 7, 2020, it was announced that Chernin Entertainment ended their distribution deal with 20th Century Studios and made a multi-year first-look deal with Netflix. On August 11, 2020, it was reported that Netflix had acquired the trilogy for a mid-2021 release date with the original release strategy of one film per month.