Begin blasting Gavin DeGraw’s “I Don’t Need to Be” out of your stereo, as a result of a One Tree Hill sequel collection is reportedly within the works.
Netflix is growing a brand new model of One Tree Hill, with unique stars Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton Morgan and Danneel Ackles serving as govt producers, Selection reported on Friday, August 30. (The mission will likely be below Danneel, 45, and husband Jensen Ackles’ Chaos Machine banner.)
Burton Morgan and Bush, each 42, who performed Peyton Sawyer and Brooke Davis, respectively, are reportedly set to reprise their roles. Danneel, who joined the present as Rachel throughout season 3, can also be in talks to seem on display screen. Christmas in Louisiana director and producer Emily Wilson will likely be a producer on the mission, in accordance with Deadline. (Wilson has labored with a number of OTH alums for Lifetime vacation films.)
Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton, and Danneel Ackles. Getty Photographs (3)
One Tree Hill premiered in 2003 on The WB. It adopted half-brothers and basketball rivals Nathan (James Lafferty) and Lucas Scott (Chad Michael Murray) as they navigated their highschool years within the fictional city of Tree Hill, North Carolina. After three seasons on The WB, the community grew to become The CW and OTH continued for six extra seasons.
The unique forged included cheerleaders Brooke (Bush) and Peyton (Burton), who’re finest mates regardless of combating for Lucas’ love. Bethany Pleasure Lenz rounded out the unique forged as Haley James Scott, Lucas’ BFF and Nathan’s spouse.
For the forged of One Tree Hill, the road between truth and fiction was typically blurred. The present’s stars declare that occasions from their actual lives — from their private pursuits to their traumas — would discover their method into their characters’ storylines. “[The producers] made observe of benefiting from individuals’s private lives,” Sophia […]
Each Murray, 43, and Burton Morgan exited the collection in 2009, with Murray making a cameo throughout a season 9 episode in 2012. Lafferty, 39, Lenz, 43, and Bush all remained on the present till its finish in 2012.
After the collection conclusion, Bush, Burton Morgan and Lenz have been among the many ladies within the forged who accused creator Mark Schwahan of being inappropriate on set.
“Mark Schwahn’s conduct over the period of the filming of One Tree Hill was one thing of an ‘open secret.’ Many people have been, to various levels, manipulated psychologically and emotionally. A couple of of us remains to be in therapy for post-traumatic stress,” the actresses alleged to Selection in 2017. “Many people have been put in uncomfortable positions and needed to swiftly be taught to combat again, typically bodily, as a result of it was made clear to us that the supervisors within the room weren’t the protectors they have been speculated to be. Many people have been spoken to in ways in which ran the spectrum from deeply upsetting, to traumatizing, to downright unlawful. And some of us have been put in positions the place we felt bodily unsafe. A couple of girl on our present had her profession trajectory threatened.”
A rep for Schwahan, 58, declined to touch upon the document to Selection on any of the allegations, which included Burton Morgan accusing the showrunner of sexually harassing her on a number of events. Burton Morgan’s claims have been backed up by Danneel, in addition to different feminine crew members.
Murray, who has been an ally for his feminine costars, revealed in 2021 that he was open to a reboot, however made it clear Schwahan couldn’t be on the helm. “I consider sooner or later, I’m certain there will likely be some new iteration of One Tree Hill,” Murray instructed TV Fanatic in June 2021. “Who is aware of? However I believe it must be taken below new steering and set free into the world.”
He added, “I’ve at all times heard issues through the years, however nothing ever got here to fruition. However hey, you by no means know.”
It’s laborious to look again at teen dramas with out remembering One Tree Hill, and a long time later followers are nonetheless speaking about its explosive forged. The collection, created by Mark Schwahn, aired for 9 seasons from 2003 to 2012. It premiered on The WB then moved over to The CW in 2006 when The WB was […]
Earlier this yr, Bush defined that her mindset a couple of revival has shifted in recent times. “What I’ll say is I believe for a very long time our reply on that was a agency no, we have been actually able to put it to mattress,” she confessed to E! Information in January. “After which with the ladies and I deciding that that was our present and we need to reclaim it, now we’re like, ‘Nicely what would a feminist reclamation of our present appear like?’”
Bush, who started cohosting the “Drama Queens” podcast with Burton Morgan and Lenz in 2021, teased she would “by no means say by no means” about revival her character. “I don’t have any solutions from you however issues change over time,” she added. (Burton Morgan took a step again from the podcast in 2024 after the group acquired to season 7. Robert Buckley, who joined the present that season, is now a “Drama Queens” cohost.)
Us Weekly has reached out to Netflix for remark.