The Upper East Side is gonna look a little different when the Gossip Girl reboot hits our screens on HBO Max.
Especially because — we are now Gossip Girl.
Gone will be the mystery behind Kristen Bell’s voice behind a screen; instead, the show will focus on how social media makes us, ordinary people, the new purveyors.
“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,” said executive producer Josh Schwartz.
Many fans of the original series, which ran from 2007 to 2012, are hoping to see Blake Lively, et al, reprise their roles.
“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.”
We’re still holding out hope. Xoxo.
