50 Fun Facts About Julie and the Phantoms

On which streaming service was Julie and the Phantoms released in September 2020?

Netflix released the full season on September 10, 2020, the same day its soundtrack album came out.

The series is an adaptation of a TV show from which country?

The series remakes the Brazilian original, Julie e os Fantasmas, which aired in Brazil on Rede Bandeirantes and Nickelodeon Brazil in 2011-12.

What was the name of the band Luke, Alex and Reggie played in before they died?

The boys' band was Sunset Curve; Julie brings them back by playing its old demo CD, which she finds in her late mother's garage studio.

In what year did the three boys die?

The boys died in 1995, and Julie summons them twenty-five years later in 2020, the year the show is set.

How did Luke, Alex and Reggie die?

They skipped soundcheck to eat rancid 'street dogs', and food poisoning from street hot dogs killed all three that night.

At which Los Angeles venue were the boys booked to play on the night they died?

The Orpheum bookends the season: the boys died outside it before their big gig, and Julie and the Phantoms finally play its stage in the finale.

Who plays Julie Molina?

Madison Reyes, a teenager from Pennsylvania, won the role of Julie through an open casting call in 2019; it was her first professional acting job.

Which instrument does Reggie play in the band?

Reggie plays bass in the band; his actor Jeremy Shada also plays in the pop-punk band Make Out Monday with his brother Zack.

What is Alex Mercer's role in the Phantoms?

Alex is the band's drummer and the anxious one of the trio; his romance with the ghost Willie became a fan favourite.

What is the name of Julie's best friend?

Flynn only believes in the ghosts once they materialise during Julie's performance of 'Flying Solo'.

Which group performs 'Wow' at the school rally, right before Julie's comeback?

Dirty Candy, the glossy dance-pop group fronted by Julie's school rival, performs 'Wow' at the rally before Julie stuns the school with 'Bright'.

Broadway star Cheyenne Jackson plays which character?

Cheyenne Jackson plays Caleb Covington, the magician-showman ghost; he had just played Hades in Descendants 3 for the same director.

What establishment does Caleb own?

Caleb runs the Hollywood Ghost Club, a lavish afterlife supper club whose production numbers, including 'The Other Side of Hollywood', lure the boys into losing track of time.

Willie, the ghost who becomes Alex's love interest, loves doing what?

He and Alex first collide when Willie skates into him, and Willie later takes him to a closed museum to loosen him up.

Which actor, known for the Twilight Saga and Descendants, plays Willie?

Stewart played the werewolf Seth Clearwater in Twilight and Jay, son of Jafar, in the Descendants films.

Julie's younger brother, who appoints himself a junior ghost hunter, is called what?

Julie's little brother Carlos, played by Sonny Bustamante, decides the house is haunted and sets out to catch the ghosts.

Which Puerto Rican actor and singer plays Julie's father, Ray Molina?

Carlos Ponce, the Puerto Rican singer-actor known from telenovelas, plays Julie's widowed father Ray, a photographer.

Before he became the famous Trevor Wilson, the band's fourth member went by what name?

Bobby skipped the fatal hot dogs and survived; as Trevor Wilson he built a career on the songs his dead bandmates wrote.

Trevor Wilson is the father of which character?

Trevor's daughter is Carrie Wilson, Julie's former friend turned school rival, so the boys' revenge haunting of Trevor complicates Julie's life at school.

Rose, the waitress in the opening scene, turns out to be whom?

Rose turns out to be Julie's mother, who has since died: the band had handed her their demo CD at the venue on the night they died, which is how it ended up in her studio for Julie to find.

When the boys first appear on stage with Julie at the school rally, what does the crowd assume they are?

Julie tells the school the boys are holograms, a lie she keeps up for a while; it hurts her friendship with her best friend until she tells her the truth.

How many episodes did the series produce?

All 9 episodes dropped at once on September 10, 2020, and the season proved to be the show's only one.

Principal photography took place in which Canadian province?

The show was shot in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, in late 2019, the province being a frequent stand-in for Los Angeles settings.

Which High School Musical director executive produced the show and directed its pilot?

Kenny Ortega, director of the High School Musical films, executive produced the show and directed its opening episodes under the multi-year deal he signed with the streamer in April 2019.

Exterior shots including the high school scenes were filmed on the campus of which institution?

Interiors were shot at The Bridge Studios in Burnaby, a frequent stand-in for American settings.

Which song did the actors playing Julie and Luke write themselves for the show?

'Perfect Harmony' was written by the two leads themselves during production and underscores the sequence in which Julie imagines dancing with Luke.

Which song, Luke's ballad about his mom, won the show a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Original Song?

Two other songs from the show were nominated in the same category that year.

The cast won the MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Musical Moment for which song?

'Edge of Great' won Best Musical Moment at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards; the number closes episode 7, which takes its title from the song.

In the finale, the band lands a slot opening for which real band?

The band wins the spot opening for Panic! at the Disco at the venue where the boys died; Julie starts the closing number alone, and the boys break free and join her one by one.

What does Caleb give the boys as they leave his club, causing painful jolts afterwards?

Caleb marks each boy's wrist with a stamp as they leave, binding them to his club; Willie explains the jolts will only stop if they finish their unfinished business or join Caleb's show.

What is the title of the first episode?

The first episode is 'Wake Up', sharing its title with the piano ballad Julie sings in it; the series' lead director helmed the opener.

What is the title of the season finale?

The finale, 'Stand Tall', takes its name from the closing number and ends on a cliffhanger — Caleb possessing Nick — that the cancellation left unresolved.

Jeremy Shada, who plays Reggie, is best known as the voice of which animated hero?

His older brother Zack voiced Finn in the original pilot before Jeremy took over the role.

Owen Joyner, who plays Alex, earlier starred as Arc in which Nickelodeon series?

Owen Joyner played Arc in Nickelodeon's Knight Squad (2018-19), a comedy set at a school for knights, before joining Julie and the Phantoms.

Cheyenne Jackson starred in seasons five through eight of which FX anthology series?

Cheyenne Jackson appeared in American Horror Story from Hotel through Apocalypse (seasons five to eight); his Broadway breakthrough came in All Shook Up in 2005.

What position did the soundtrack reach on the US Billboard Soundtrack Albums chart?

It hit number one on iTunes in the US and Australia and reached 163 on the main Billboard 200.

Which actor plays Nick, the classmate who pairs up with Julie in dance class?

Sacha Carlson plays Nick, Julie's crush and dance-class partner, whose body is taken over by the ghost-club owner in the season's final scene.

Who played Julie in the original Brazilian series?

Mariana Lessa played Julie in the 2011-12 original, Julie e os Fantasmas, on which the American series is based.

The actress who plays Julie released a debut EP in 2022 with what title?

Her first single, 'Te Amo', came out in July 2021, and she recorded 'Main Thing' with co-star Jadah Marie.

Charlie Gillespie, who plays Luke, was born in which Canadian province?

Charlie Gillespie was born in Dieppe, New Brunswick, just outside Moncton, and is a multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar for real on the show.

What is the name of Julie's music program teacher?

Mrs. Harrison, played by Marci T. House, runs the music program; she readmits Julie after the show-stopping rally performance of 'Bright'.

Which choreographer directed the third episode, 'Flying Solo'?

Choreographer Paul Becker, who staged the show's musical numbers, directed 'Flying Solo'; the remaining episodes were split among the lead director, Kabir Akhtar and Kristin Hanggi.

Nick and Julie pair up after a coach forces which sport's players into her dance class?

The coach sends his lacrosse players to dance class, where Nick is partnered with Julie; their routine is the one she later imagines dancing with Luke.

Julie's father grounds her after she oversleeps and misses three classes plus a test in which subject?

She sneaks out anyway to play the talent contest, and a talent scout approaches the band right before her dad turns up.

Who wrote the song Julie sings at the piano in the pilot episode?

Anne Preven, whose other credits include co-writing Natalie Imbruglia's 'Torn' and Beyoncé's 'Listen', wrote the pilot's piano ballad.

How many tracks are on the season one soundtrack album?

It opens with the boys' 'Now or Never' and closes with the finale's title song, running just over 49 minutes.

Which two writers created Julie and the Phantoms and served as its showrunners?

Dan Cross and David Hoge created the series and served as its showrunners, adapting the 2011 original for a Los Angeles setting.

When did Netflix cancel Julie and the Phantoms after a single season?

The cancellation was announced in December 2021, fifteen months after the show's release, despite a sustained fan campaign for a second season.

What weighted average score did Metacritic give the series?

The score, from seven reviews, signalled 'generally favorable reviews' to go with a 93% Rotten Tomatoes rating.

Many interior scenes were shot at which studio complex in Burnaby, British Columbia?

Principal photography ran from September 17 to December 14, 2019.