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A Gossip Girl reboot has now been announced after much speculation. The CW series ended back in 2012 but rumours had been rife and now fans will be pleased to hear there will be return to the Upper East Side with a brand new reboot ordered by HBO. Express.co.uk exclusively spoke to former cast member Chase Crawford about whether he would ever return to the show.
When is the Gossip Girl reboot released?
HBO Max has dropped the first teaser trailer for the Gossip Girl reboot, which will premiere on July 8.
It has been announced that the series will be airing on HBO Max, the network’s new streaming service.
HBO Max arrived in spring 2020 as the new home of HBO and WarnerMedia programming.
According to reports, production started in October 2020 after delays created by the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
Who is in the cast of Gossip Girl?
Gossip Girl made household names of Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgely and Chase Crawford when it began airing in 2007.
Express.co.uk exclusively spoke to Crawford, who played Nathaniel Archibald in the show, about whether he would ever want to head back to the Upper East Side.
He said: “People like to talk about that – I doubt that’s going to be in the cards in the future but I’m always open to anything.”
Given that the reboot takes place eight years after the previous season, the original cast are not expected to return but it seems that Crawford has not ruled it out.
He will soon be appearing in Amazon Prime’s new superhero drama The Boys, which is released in full on Friday, July 26, but he did admit he still has lots of fans from Gossip Girl.
He added: “With Gossip Girl being on another streaming service, it’s created a whole fan base of the same age group.
“I still get these fans, which is really nice.”
According to Digital Spy, the new cast will include Eli Brown, Jordan Alexander, Thomas Doherty, Tavi Gevinson, Emily Alyn Lind and Whitney Peak.
While The Good Place and Frozen’s Kristen Bell will be reprising her role as the narrator.
What will happen in the new series of Gossip Girl?
HBO has ordered 10 hour-long episodes of the series for the streaming platform.
The reboot is based on the book by Cecily von Ziegesar, which sees the Gossip Girl website come back online eight years after the events of the previous series.
The show will see a new generation of New York private school teens deal with the return of the website in the current climate of social media.
Creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage will be back on board for the new series, as well as executive producer Joshua Safran.
Schwartz previously told TV Line and the Television Critics Assocation Tour over the summer how the series wasn’t a remake as such but a continuation of the same world.
He said: “There aren’t, like, new actors playing Serena and Blair. It’s not a remake. [It’s] a continuation of that world.
“We’ve reached out to all of them to let them know it was happening, and we would love for them to be involved if they want to be involved.”
The executive went on to say: “But [we] certainly didn’t want to make it contingent upon their [participation].
“They played those characters for six years, and if they felt like they were good with that, we wanted to respect that. But obviously, it would be great to see them again.”
Is there a trailer for the Gossip Girl reboot?
The teaser shows how the series is set during the smartphone era, where influencers police their image.
“Thinking you’re in control of your image, your actions, the narrative. But you forgot one thing: I can see you. And before I’m through, I’ll make sure you see me too. XOXO,” the gossiper says.
Gossip Girl will air on HBO Max on July 8.
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