The officialGossip Girlreboot cast and character line-up has been revealed, with new photos and an enigmatic one-word description to go along with it. This bigGossip Girlnews arrives ahead of the reboot’s HBO Max premiere, which is expected in 2021 although no official date has been set. We firstlearned about theGossip Girlrebootback in July 2019.Gossip Girlexecutive producersJoshua Safran,Stephanie Savage, andJosh Schwartzare back on board for the HBO Max reboot. So far, the only original cast member set to return for the reboot isKristen Bell, who will once again voice the unseen, omnipotent “Gossip Girl.” The reboot is set eight years after the original show’s finale and follows a new group of Upper East Side teens mired in all kinds of new drama.
Over the weekend, theGossip Girlreboot Instagramaccount revealed new official images of the core cast as well as the characters they would be playing. Every character is seen looking extremely glam and moody — as one would expect from aGossip Girlcharacter. Additionally, each character has been assigned a one-word description like “Ambition,” “Influence,” “Perspective,” and “Freedom” to help familiarize us with this new group.
The reboot cast includes some familiar faces, likeTavi Gevinson(The Twilight Zone,Scream Queens),Thomas Doherty(High Fidelity), andEmily Alyn Lind(Doctor Sleep). Other cast members —Jordan Alexander,Savannah Smith,Zion Moreno, andEvanMock, to name a few — might be less familiar. Where the latter group is concerned, we shouldn’t be too worried because their names will soon be on the tips of our tongues whenGossip Girlarrives later this year. Intriguingly, reboot cast membersLaura Benanti,Adam Chanler-Berat, andJonathan Fernandezwere not included in the first batch of cast and character images.
Until now, we’ve only seen brief videos or photos from theGossip Girlreboot set during filming. The most exciting bit of set video footage was shared back in December 2o20 on the show’sInstagram. It featured some of the new cast hanging out on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art — an iconicGossip Girllocation. We also got a brief glimpse of someGossip Girlreboot footage in arecent HBO Max trailerteasing its 2021 line-up.
TheGossip Girlreboot is set to premiere on HBO Max in 2021. Check out the stunning new photos of theGossip Girlcast and peep those interesting power words each character has been assigned. For more, find out what’scoming to HBO and HBO Maxin January.
