Netflix has yet to officially announce a "Gilmore Girls" revival series, but creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is hard at work planning new storylines for her beloved characters including a new love interest for at least one of them.
The real possibility of a "Gilmore Girls" return started in October when it was reported Netflix and Warner Bros. Television were closing in on a deal to revive the beloved mother-daughter series starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel.
The reboot will jump ahead to the present day and consist of four 90-minute episodes. Cast negotiations are ongoing, but the four major players - Graham (Lorelai Gilmore), Bledel (Rory Gilmore), Scott Patterson (Luke Danes) and Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore) - are expected to return.
At least one of their characters will be getting a new love interest, according to TVLine. The logical choices would be Rory, who was last seen dumping her boyfriend Logan, or Emily, whose on-screen husband, Edward Hermann, died last year.
The original series finale reunited former lovers Luke and Lorelai, who had broken off their engagement in the previous season. But a lot can happen in eight years, especially for those two commitment-phobes.
Construction has started on sets for the revival and other recurring stars have expressed their interest in returning.
"I haven't heard that I'm not coming back," Liza Weil, who played Paris, told E! News in November. "I just haven't officially signed on. I hope to be a part of it!"
"Empire" co-creator and Emmy-winning Danny Strong also would find time in his busy schedule to revisit his former "Gilmore Girls" character, Doyle.
"I think 'Gilmore Girls' is a perfect show to do a reunion like this. I think it'll work really well because it was a show about characters and a world and their relationships. So you can just pick up those relationships," Strong told E! News. "I think we would be very interested to see where they're at now."
Yanic Truesdale, who played Michel Gerard, Lorelai's co-worker, told Entertainment Weekly that he "would be crazy to not want to be part of [the Netflix revival].
"I think it would be fair to say that, for everyone involved in 'Gilmore Girls,' it was not a satisfying ending. It wasn't supposed to end when it ended and it should have [ended with] Amy - it was her voice, it was her show," Truesdale told EW in October.
