Gossip Girl reboot showrunner: Actually, our show is not a reboot!

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Joshua Safran saw the recent images online of the HBO Max cast on The Met's steps and wanted to clarify that the new Gossip Girl isn't actually a reboot. “Okay, I want to explain why I saw this is not a reboot,” he wrote on his Instagram Stories. “A) The cast aren’t playing the original characters B) It exists in the same world as the original C) The same creators and one of the original writers are making it D) No one involved with it is calling it a reboot. Better Call Saul is not a reboot. The Power spin-offs are not reboots. This show falls somewhere between those two. But I’m just grateful people are intrigued enough to write about us!” Safran added: “I really wanted this to feel like an extension and in no way a reboot. So it’s an evolution of the story, not a retread. That said, there are echoes. Constance and St. Judes are still Constance and St. Judes, after all."