WarnerMedia introduced earlier this yr {that a} Gossip Girl reboot was on the agenda, and it might debut on its new streaming service, HBO Max, set to launch in Might 2020. Since then, information in regards to the upcoming collection has been parceled out right here and there, however most particulars have been stored strictly below wraps. Any and all info can be discovered proper right here although, with TV Information’s trusted The whole lot To Know information to the upcoming reboot.
Take a look at all the present spoilers for the present under, from casting to the premise to attainable cameos:
It’s technically a sequel collection, not a full reboot. Although the brand new collection will “reboot” the unique present’s premise of Higher East Facet youngsters in prep faculty coping with the gossip and scandal that include being wealthy and glamorous, the brand new collection will happen in the identical timeline as the unique. Executive producer Josh Safran told fans at Vulture Festival: “It’s 12 years — I suppose 13 years after the unique. So we’re in real-time from the unique the place we’re within the present.”
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The 10-episode first season will air on HBO Max. When the information of the pickup broke, WarnerMedia introduced that it had ordered a 10-episode first season, which can air solely on its new streaming service, HBO Max.
Gossip Woman will not be a personality this time. Although Serena (Blake Lively), Blair (Leighton Meester), Dan (Penn Badgley) and the gang needed to take care of an omniscient gossip blogger exposing their secrets and techniques on the each day, the brand new era will face a special downside. “We felt like there was one thing actually attention-grabbing about this concept that we have been all Gossip Woman now in our personal manner,” co-creator Josh Schwartz told a small group of reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. “We have been all form of purveyors of our personal social media surveillance state, and the way that is developed and the way that has morphed and mutated, and telling that story via a brand new era of Higher East Facet highschool youngsters felt like the correct time.”
Kristen Bell will return, although. The Hollywood Reporter broke the information that Bell would return for the brand new collection, reprising her position because the all-knowing disembodied voice of the Gossip Woman weblog, who narrated the earlier collection.
“[The producers] simply stated, ‘We have got actually excellent news. It is wanting like we’ll do one other model of Gossip Woman and we’d love so that you can return,'” Bell informed Variety whereas selling Frozen II. “I used to be thrilled as a result of… it was an easy job for me. I bought to return in and mess around… It is a lot enjoyable to observe. It is lovely. It is foolish. It is dramatic. I am excited that they are revamping it as a result of it is simply enjoyable leisure.”
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As for different authentic characters… possibly? Although no earlier forged members have signed on for the brand new collection, Schwartz hasn’t dominated out a cameo or visitor star arc for them but. “In the event that they need to be concerned indirectly, we have reached out to loads them to allow them to understand it was occurring and that we’d love for them to be concerned in the event that they need to be concerned,” he said at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. “They performed these characters for six years, and in the event that they felt like they have been good with that we wished to respect that, however clearly any time anyone desires, it might be nice to see them once more.”
The brand new forged is being assembled. Code Black‘s Emily Alyn Lind has been forged as a personality named Audrey. Extra new youngsters will likely be introduced at a later date.
It is going to be set at Constance Billard Faculty for Women. Like the unique, the feminine characters of the Gossip Woman reboot will attend Constance prep faculty, and the male characters will attend its brother faculty, St. Jude’s.
The brand new take will likely be extra numerous. One of many main complaints about Gossip Woman again within the day was the dearth of variety the present depicted, from sexual orientation to pores and skin colour. That won’t be the case this time, though, Safran said. “There was not a whole lot of illustration the primary time round on the present… I used to be the one homosexual author, I feel, all the time I used to be there. Even after I went to personal faculty in New York within the ’90s, the college did not essentially mirror what was on Gossip Woman. So, this time across the leads are nonwhite. There’s a whole lot of queer content material on this present. It is extremely a lot coping with the best way the world appears now, the place wealth and privilege come from, and the way you deal with that. The factor I am unable to say is there’s a twist, and that every one pertains to the twist.”
The retooled Gossip Woman doesn’t have a premiere date as of but, however HBO Max launches in Might of 2020. Find out more about the streaming service. Gossip Woman is presently accessible for streaming on Netflix.
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