This is not a drill, people: A Gossip Girl reboot is officially happening.
Entertainment Weekly reports the streaming service HBO Max has ordered 10 episodes of a Gossip Girl revival, with the show's original creative heads, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, on board as executive producers. Josh Safran, who was both a writer and producer on the OG Gossip Girl, will serve as the reboot's showrunner.
According to EW, it's not known at this point whether any of the show's original cast members—including Blake Lively (Serena), Leighton Meester (Blair), and Chace Crawford (Nate)—are returning to the reboot, but most have expressed at least some interest in the idea.
"It sort of all depends," Lively told Variety in 2017. "Would I do seven years of the show? No, because it's hard work and I've got my babies, and I don't want to be away from them that much. But I've just learned in life you never say never. I'm looking to do something that I haven't done yet, not something that I did. But would I do that? Who knows—if it was good, if it made sense. We had so much fun shooting and living and working in New York City."
Meanwhile, Meester told E! News in 2019, "No one's ever asked me [about a reboot]. No one's ever talked to me about it except for in interviews, and I always say the same. I never say never. So I don't know. No one's sent me that information, it's coming from you."
Penn Badgley (Dan) and Ed Westwick (Chuck) are the only actors who seem to not be so keen on the idea. "I suppose you should never say never," Badgley told Variety in 2018. "I suppose there are conditions where I would. Do I think those conditions will ever exist? No. But they might." And Westwick told the Radio Times in 2017 that the show is "played out" and "done."
People on Twitter are, naturally, elated with this news:
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Reboot details are sparse at this point, but of course we'll keep you updated as they roll in.
