Michael Connelly Has Acknowledged The Save Bosch: Legacy Petition

Key Takeaways

• Michael Connelly’s acknowledgment of the Save Bosch: Legacy petition boosts the chances of its success.
• Fans are pushing for a proper ending for Bosch: legacy, despite the spin-off with
  Ballard
  .
• The petition to save
  Bosch: Legacy
  shows the power of fan campaigns in the industry.

Bosch: Legacy fans are preparing to bid an abrupt farewell to Harry Bosch’s solo stories after the third and final season airs in March 2025. A petition to Save Bosch: Legacy was launched on change.org in the aftermath of the cancelation, and it has garnered nearly 4000 signatures already. Now, the author of the books and executive producer on the show, Michael Connelly, has acknowledged the fans’ efforts and this could really help the Save Bosch: Legacy petition in the long run.

In a recent interview, Connelly was supportive of fans who want to save Bosch: Legacy, but he also re-assured them that Harry Bosch isn’t done yet, as he’ll appear in the spin-off show focused on Renee Ballard. However, fans aren’t convinced guest spots in Ballard are going to be enough moving forward, and they want the creative team to get a proper opportunity to end the story in the right way.

The Fact That Michael Connelly Mentioned The Bosch: Legacy Petition Gives It A Massive Boost

Michael Connelly is currently touring the US to promote his new Harry Bosch/Renee Ballard book, The Waiting, and he opened up about the end of Bosch: Legacy in a recent interview with The Irish Star. He was asked about the ‘spirited Grass Roots campaign‘ that was launched in an effort to give the show a proper ending, after Amazon canceled it. Connelly said the petition to Save Bosch: Legacy was:

These two words were a massive boost for the dedicated team behind the campaign, and it just gives them the impetus to push forward in their efforts. It feels like an endorsement of sorts towards the Save Bosch: Legacy petition, as Connelly certainly isn’t telling the fans to stop their mission. Connelly has been nothing but dignified in his response to the end of Bosch: Legacy, choosing to respect the amazing run Harry Bosch has had on Prime Video:

It’s very hard for me to argue with having 10 seasons of Bosch.

Bosch: Legacy Key Facts

• A petition to Save Bosch: Legacy can be signed HERE
• 100% Critics Score on Rotten Tomatoes
• Bosch: Legacy helped to launch Amazon’s streaming service

As much as it has been a great run for Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, it wouldn’t be surprising if there was a tinge of disappointment from Connelly and the creative team that they weren’t given the chance to wrap things up in a proper way. Later in the interview with The Irish Star, Connelly says:

We didn’t get the word Bosch: Legacy was not going to go on until we were well into producing Ballard.

Fans know the end of Bosch: Legacy wasn’t a creative decision, as Titus Welliver opened up in a YouTube interview on The Sackhoff Show that he was hoping to return to play Harry Bosch in a fourth season. And Connelly has confirmed in this latest interview that the team weren’t told Bosch: Legacy was ending until filming had been wrapped on season 3. Connelly probably had his hands tied with the statement he released to announce the end of Bosch: Legacy, because of his continued involvement with Amazon on the production of Ballard.

The Save Bosch: Legacy Petition Will Keep Going Until It Achieves Its Goal

Fan-led petitions are not a new phenomenon, with many previously successful campaigns helping to put pressure on executives to commission more series, spin-offs and movie versions of popular shows. The power of the fans shouldn’t be underestimated, and in the case of the Bosch-verse, it helped to convince Amazon to commission Bosch: Legacy in 2022, after the original Bosch series ended in 2021. Bosch: Legacy needs the fans to save it, but it also needs the support of Hollywood. The industry appears to be reeling after the strikes, with a lack of productions currently taking place in the Los Angeles area. If a successful show like Bosch: Legacy is getting canceled, who knows what other great shows could be next?

Fans of Netflix’s hit show, Daredevil, launched a campaign to save the show when it ended after only three seasons back in 2018. It took seven long years, and over 400,000 petition signings, but the fans can finally enjoy the fruits of their labor when Daredevil: Born Again airs on Disney+ in March 2025. As it happens, it’ll be running around the same time Bosch: Legacy launches its final season. The Daredevil campaign left no stone unturned in their pursuit of a new series: they paid for billboards in Times Square to promote the campaign, launched a website, and even got the backing of cast members including Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio. Surely Hollywood will back the fans and speak up to help save Bosch: Legacy? It’s been one of the most successful shows of the last decade. Fans are doing as much as they can to save Bosch: Legacy, but ‘it takes a village’.

Hollywood And The Fans Can Sign The Petition To Save Bosch: Legacy HERE