The girls are back in town! Of course, I'm referring to our beloved Gilmore Girls [1] and Stars Hollow. Netflix's revival is officially underway, and Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel appeared on the cover of this week's Entertainment Weekly [2] to promote the highly anticipated reboot. We've been collecting all the details about the new Gilmore Girls [3] since the news was first announced, but there are some cool new tidbits in the article. Here's what we learned!
- They're definitely movies. It was rumored that the format of the reboot would consist of four 90-minute installments [4], tentatively named after each season of the year. Creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino have confirmed this, and are referring to the installments as movies.
- The invitation for Melissa McCarthy to appear is still out there. There has been a lot of back-and-forth about whether McCarthy would reprise her role [5] as Sookie St. James, but it seemed like McCarthy either never got the memo, was too busy, or both. Sherman-Palladino confirmed that they have definitely reached out to her: "We've just put it out into the universe; we're here until May 10. I know what the scene is. I'll pre-light it for her. She can drive up, run in, shoot it, and run out. I can get her in and out in two hours."
- Those "final four words" are still unknown. As staunch Gilmore Girls [6] fans known, Palladino originally wanted the series to end with a mythical four words. Things didn't work out that way, but it's been promised that the new series will end with those four words [7]. "It's not as resolved as I thought they would be," Lauren Graham told EW. "I keep saying, 'Hey, does anyone else notice this is actually not an ending?' Amy and Dan just giggle at me."