One of the surprising reboots announced on the upcoming HBO Max streaming service is Gossip Girl. As the streaming service prepares to launch, the cast of HBO Max’s Gossip Girl is also starting to take shape.
Along with Emily Alyn Lind, who was announced as a the lead of the show on Monday, The WanerMedia streaming platform also casted Whitney Peak, Eli Brown, Johnathan Fernandez and Jason Gotay as the first on-camera members of the ensemble.
Fans of the original will also love the news that Kristen Bell will also reprise her role from the 2007-12 CW series as the narrator and voice of Gossip Girl.
HBO Max gave a straight-to-series order to Gossip Girl in July 2019. The series,
will pick up eight years after the original, the 10-episode series will follow a new generation of New York private school teens who are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl. The series will address just how much social media — and the landscape of New York itself — has changed in the intervening years.