Gossip Girl here, and we have some interesting information about the upcoming reboot of the hit series.
HBO Max announced earlier this month that it would be producing a new version of The CW show, which starred Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Ed Westwick, and Chase Crawford.
10 episodes have so far been ordered, with original creator Josh Schwartz back on board.
At the Television Critics Association event, Schwartz revealed some of what we can expect from the upcoming show — and whether Serena and Blair will be back.
“I mean, if they want to be involved in some way, we reached out to all of them to let them know it was happening, and that we would love for them to be involved, if they want to be involved, but we certainly didn’t want to make it contingent upon them,” Schwartz said.
“And you know, they played those characters for six years, and if they felt like they’re good with that, we wanted to respect that but obviously any time anybody wants… it’d be great to see them again.”
As for Gossip Girl herself, her identity will no longer be a mystery. Because it’s us.
“We felt like a version that was just our cast grown up… it didn’t really feel like a group of adults who were being controlled by Gossip Girl would make a lot of sense, so it felt like there was something really interesting about this idea that we are all Gossip Girl now, in our own way, that we are all purveyors of our own social media surveillance state, and how that’s evolved, and how that has morphed and mutated and telling that story through a new generation of Upper East Side high school kids felt like the right time.”
We’ll be watching.
