Official ‘Gilmore Girls’ Revival Title Is Here As Cast Gives Hint To Final Four Words
Gilmore Girls fans must brace themselves to spend a year with the beloved show’s cast members. On Thursday, Lauren Graham told Ellen DeGeneres that the revival show’s official title would be Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
The poster for the Netflix revival series was also unveiled. As the show’s title suggests, the four 90-minute episodes will each cover a different season: spring, summer, fall, and winter.
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Gilmore Girls is also filming on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. Lauren opened up to Ellen about feeling lucky to have the chance to be a part of the show again.
“It’s been the most incredible experience. I cry trying to talk about it because I feel so lucky to get to do it but it’s also been so bizarre because I open the door — we’re across the street from you, which wasn’t the case before but the set is the same but we’re in a different place. So it’s like it was yesterday but also it was not yesterday.”
Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Daniel Palladino helmed the four episodes, or “mini movies.” Fans are yearning to know if the four episodes will be released all at once because as early as now, some are already planning to “binge watch.”
Amy told TV Line that she would like it if the show would be released separately for diehard fans to really enjoy Gilmore Girls.
“My preference would be they would not be released at once, because I feel like there’s going to be anticipation, and I think the diehard fans would enjoy it more with a little separation.”
She went on to say that releasing the episodes separately would avoid spoilers.
“Because the last thing you want is for someone to jump to the last episode and [ruin] it for everybody — which I think would happen, quite frankly, in this day and age of binging. So my preference would be to release them at least a day apart. Let people get a little sunlight and go for a walk around the corner.”
There is no official release date yet, but it is believed that the specials will air later this year. Gilmore Girls follows the lives of a mother and daughter residing in a simple town, Stars Hollow. The original series ran from 2000 to 2007 and had 157 episodes.
Gilmore Girls fans are trying to guess the final four words said in the series. Amy admitted that she’s known the words since 2006, the year she left the show ahead of its final season. Lauren teased that the final four words would be an exchange.
Scott Patterson, who will reprise his role as Luke, also told Glamour that he knew the words.
“They actually moved me. I was very moved to hear them. It may be because I was thinking along the same lines, and it sort of matched or lined up with how I felt it should end,” he said.
The actor also said it was difficult at first to be on the Gilmore Girls set because of Ed Hermann’s death.
He played the role of Richard Gilmore. Scott said that everyone felt his loss especially that “only a man of his tremendous talent and humanity” can fill the void. Ed passed away in 2014 at the age of 71.
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