Teaser For Gossip Girl Reboot Released, Premiere On July 8

HBO Max released the teaser trailer for the Gossip Girl reboot and revealed that the show would premiere on July 8.

The Gossip Girl reboot is set eight years after the original show’s series finale. The series will follow a new group of private-school teenagers living in the Upper East Side.

The filming for the Gossip Girl was scheduled to begin in March 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Production for the reboot began in November 2020.

The cast of the Gossip Girl reboot includes Emily Alyn Lind, Eli Brown, Thomas Doherty, Whitney Peak, Savannah Lee Smith, Jordan Alexander, Evan Mock, Zion Moreno, and Tavi Gevinson. HBO ordered 10 episodes of the Gossip Girl reboot

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The teaser trailer featured a voiceover of Kristen Bell, the actor who voiced the original Gossip Girl, an unknown narrator that blogged about a group of privileged teenagers.

The CW series of the same name was based on a series of novels by Cecily von Ziegesar. It starred Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badley, and Ed Westwick. The original series aired from 2007 to 2012.

The executive producer of the original series Joshua Safran is the showrunner of the Gossip Girl reboot. Safran said that in the original series “there was not a lot of representation”. He added that “I was the only gay writer I think the entire time I was there.”

Safran said that in the reboot, the leads are people of colour and said that “there’s a lot of queer content on this show”. He had that the Gossip Girl reboot dealt with “the way the world looks now, where wealth and privilege come from, and how you handle that.”

According to Safran, the reboot is not a direct continuation of the original series but exists in the same world where the previous characters existed.