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 govt producer Becky Hartman Edwards (Virgin River, Firefly Lane, The Daring Sort) as they develop the followup collectively.
“Our showrunner, Becky Hartman Edwards, is so good at feminine friendships and multi-generational reveals, 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 offered.”
One Tree Hill creator Mark Schwahn, who served as govt producer and showrunner on the unique collection, has no involvement within the sequel. In 2017, a variety of 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 is just not 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 type of leaked, it was very, very, very early within the sport,” she defined. “So we’re within the technique of presenting issues to Netflix, and they’re going to get to resolve whether or not or not it’s greenlit. However I feel the extra individuals present that they’re enthusiastic about it, the higher.”
Returning as an govt producer with Burton-Morgan, Bush beforehand raved that the method of creating the collection has been “actually unbelievable.”
“The followers have stored that present alive, they usually’ve requested for it for thus lengthy, and the studio got here to us about,” she advised Entry. “I feel 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 type 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 feel 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 case you actually can return house?” they wrote. “If there’s a possibility to crew with good creatives and construct an area the place all our mates can showcase 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 ‘every thing’s higher and every thing’s protected.’”
The sequel is claimed to happen 20 years after the unique, following greatest mates Brooke (Davis) and Peyton (Burton Morgan) who at the moment are dad and mom to teenagers and dealing with challenges not unfamiliar to what they tackled within the authentic collection like love, insecurities and grief, we perceive.
Together with Edwards as author/govt producer, the present hails from Warner Bros. TV. Danneel Ackles and husband Jensen Ackles are govt producing the undertaking by means of their Chaos Machine banner with the previous in talks to return as Rachel Scott. Emily Moss Wilson is a producer.
