If any show can come back from after a long absence, it’s Manifest. It’s the premise of the show, right?

If it comes back at all, that may be the way it works. After NBC cancelled the show after its third season and Netflix passed on picking up the show, despite the fact that it shot to the top of the streamer’s most-watched charts.

Manifest, which followed a group of airline passengers whose flight mysteriously disappeared for five years, though no such time had passed on the plane – remains one of Netflix’s most popular shows right now. The streaming deal for Manifest was inked before Peacock launched, which is it isn’t available on NBC’s sister streaming service.

Even without NBC and Netflix, there is still hope viewers will solve the mystery of Flight 828 and its 191 passengers, and Manifest creator Jeff Rake recently revealed he’s considering a number of options as to how best wrap up the story, including the release of a movie or possibly a book. He’s just not going to do it right now.

“I would love to finish the story and look, I’m going to take some time,” Rake told Twitter Spaces.

“I’m going to hold out hope that maybe somebody will step up and help us finish that story – whether that means more episodes, whether that means a final kind of movie like they did with the show Firefly, or a lot of people have asked me ‘write the book’ and you know, that’s a cool concept but [it’s a major endeavour] and I’m going to think about it.

Exactly where a Manifest movie would air is less certain. NBC could relent and allows the show back on the air for a couple hours to assuage the fanbase trying to save the show. Rake and company could also follow the path made by Veronica Mars when it made a movie following up its three seasons on UPN/The CW.

A few years after the Kristen Bell-lead detective series ended, creator Rob Thomas tried to get Hollywood interested in making a movie. They had no interest, but he found success thanks to Kickstarter, where the film reached its $2 million goal in 11 hours. The Veronica Mars movie was released in 2014, eight years after the show ended.

Many shows have taken the comic book route, which was popular with shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which ran as a comic for 15 years, Firefly, Farscape, Grimm and Babylon 5. And from Rake’s comments, a novel isn’t entirely out of the question.

Though many fans who are taking part in the #SaveManifest campaign are holding out for this option, it seems fairly unlikely at this point. According to Deadline, Warner Bros TV has stopped looking for a new home for the series because of the complexities of navigating the digital rights and the fact that the contracts for the cast have expired.

Fans aren’t yet ready to give up. Manifest aficionados on Twitter gave Rake the encouragement he was looking for, hash tagging #FinishTheStory and #SaveManifest. “Thank you so much for all that you do and the wonderful series that you made it would mean so much to so many people to have an ending and we need an ending in one way shape or form we need one to answer all the questions,” Rake said.

Rake is still hopeful that Flight 828 passengers’ story will be told – but he’s not just going to tell us how the show would have ended. “At some point in time, I will figure out how to finish the story in a way that honors the story we’ve told so far because so much love and care and precision and money and blood, sweat and tears went into these first three seasons [that] for me to summarily blurt out the rest of the story in an article or in a series of tweets… it’s not happening,” he said.