With a brand new showrunner on the helm, Hilarie Burton-Morgan is trying ahead to a possible return to One Tree Hill.
After she and Sophia Bush confirmed they’re engaged on a reboot of their hit WB/CW teen cleaning soap, the actress praised their author and government producer Becky Hartman Edwards (Virgin River, Firefly Lane, The Daring Kind) as they develop the followup collectively.
“Our showrunner, Becky Hartman Edwards, is so good at feminine friendships and multi-generational exhibits, and that’s why we had been so excited to crew up together with her,” Burton-Morgan advised Folks. “So I really feel very assured in what’s being introduced.”
One Tree Hill creator Mark Schwahn, who served as government producer and showrunner on the unique collection, has no involvement within the sequel. In 2017, numerous OTH feminine solid and crew members, together with Bush and Burton, spoke out, accusing him of sexual harassment. The brand new collection presents a possibility for the ladies to reclaim the present.
Noting that the reboot will not be but greenlit, Burton-Morgan stated she hopes Netflix “goes for it” after Deadline reported in August that the present is within the works on the streamer.
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“When it was form of leaked, it was very, very, very early within the recreation,” she defined. “So we’re within the strategy of presenting issues to Netflix, and they’ll get to resolve whether or not or not it’s greenlit. However I believe the extra individuals present that they’re enthusiastic about it, the higher.”
Returning as an government producer with Burton-Morgan, Bush beforehand raved that the method of growing the collection has been “actually unbelievable.”
“The followers have saved that present alive, they usually’ve requested for it for thus lengthy, and the studio got here to us about,” she advised Entry. “I believe 10 years in the past, I might have stated ‘not in your life.’ And now I understand that the chance to haven’t only a consolation present, however form of a house base, issues for individuals.”
Bush stated, “And so, starting to determine how we would inform these tales and reunite our complete ragtag bunch feels actually, actually superb. If it occurs, I believe you’ll be very happy.”
Hilarie Burton and Sophia Bush in One Tree Hill (Fred Norris/Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Assortment)
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After information broke of the continuation, Bush and Burton-Morgan confirmed their involvement in a joint assertion, expressing their pleasure over returning to the present, which premiered in 2003 and initially ran for 9 seasons.
“What in the event you actually can return residence?” they wrote. “If there’s a possibility to crew with good creatives and construct an area the place all our mates can exhibit their skills? Personal our historical past? Reclaim our turf? Honor our followers? Signal us up. There’s just one Tree Hill, in spite of everything. And also you — the #OTHfam — have proven us that it’s not simply an thought. It truly is the place the place ‘all the pieces’s higher and all the pieces’s secure.’”
The sequel is alleged to happen 20 years after the unique, following finest mates Brooke (Davis) and Peyton (Burton Morgan) who are actually dad and mom to teenagers and dealing with challenges not unfamiliar to what they tackled within the unique collection like love, insecurities and grief, we perceive.
Together with Edwards as author/government producer, the present hails from Warner Bros. TV. Danneel Ackles and husband Jensen Ackles are government producing the venture by their Chaos Machine banner with the previous in talks to return as Rachel Scott. Emily Moss Wilson is a producer.
