With a brand new showrunner on the helm, Hilarie Burton-Morgan is wanting 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 staff up together with her,” Burton-Morgan informed Folks. “So I really feel very assured in what’s being offered.”
One Tree Hill creator Mark Schwahn, who served as government producer and showrunner on the unique sequence, has no involvement within the sequel. In 2017, various OTH feminine forged and crew members, together with Bush and Burton, spoke out, accusing him of sexual harassment. The brand new sequence presents a chance for the ladies to reclaim the present.
Noting that the reboot just isn’t but greenlit, Burton-Morgan mentioned 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 sort 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’ll get to determine 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 sequence has been “actually unimaginable.”
“The followers have stored that present alive, they usually’ve requested for it for therefore lengthy, and the studio got here to us about,” she informed Entry. “I believe 10 years in the past, I might have mentioned ‘not in your life.’ And now I notice that the chance to haven’t only a consolation present, however sort of a house base, issues for individuals.”
Bush mentioned, “And so, starting to determine how we would inform these tales and reunite our entire ragtag bunch feels actually, actually wonderful. 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 for those who actually can return residence?” they wrote. “If there’s a chance to staff with good creatives and construct an area the place all our pals can exhibit their skills? Personal our historical past? Reclaim our turf? Honor our followers? Signal us up. There’s just one Tree Hill, in any case. And also you — the #OTHfam — have proven us that it’s not simply an thought. It truly is the place the place ‘all the things’s higher and all the things’s protected.’”
The sequel is alleged to happen 20 years after the unique, following greatest pals Brooke (Davis) and Peyton (Burton Morgan) who are actually dad and mom to teenagers and going through challenges not unfamiliar to what they tackled within the authentic sequence 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 mission via their Chaos Machine banner with the previous in talks to return as Rachel Scott. Emily Moss Wilson is a producer.
