The forged of Melrose Place, which reunited for the primary time in years, teased the standing of the sequence’ upcoming revival on a panel at ’90s Con Florida, held in Daytona Seaside Sept. 14.
“Everybody has agreed to do it,” star Daphne Zuniga mentioned, by way of People. “Laura and I labored on this for just a little bit now. It’s in talks. Enterprise affairs and legal professionals and all these sorts are speaking about it, they usually do need to do it.”
Joined by fellow castmates Heather Locklear, Josie Bissett, Brooke Langton, Laura Leighton and Grant Present, Zuniga added that they’re ready for the talks to undergo. Her colleague, Leighton, added that there have been “many transferring components and items.”
“The celebrities have to align, however we would like it as a lot because the followers need it,” she mentioned.
In April, Deadline exclusively reported {that a} revival was within the works for the Nineteen Nineties soapy drama set at a West Hollywood residential complicated. On the time, Locklear, Leighton and Zuniga had been connected to star, and the undertaking was introduced as in improvement at CBS Studios, being shopped to networks and streamers, together with unique sequence residence Fox.
Originated by Darren Star, the sequel — hailing from Insatiable creator Lauren Gussis — would choose up years later following the demise of one of many OG residents of Melrose Place. Because the characters collect to mourn, the reunion’s tensions brings to the floor outdated wounds, romances, resentments and secrets and techniques. The logline describes a “chaotic drama that’s paying homage to the previous, however with a way more trendy perspective.”
A by-product of Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, which ran for seven seasons from 1992-99, was produced by Aaron Spelling’s Spelling Tv for Fox. The cleaning soap adopted the melodramatic lives of a gaggle of individuals of their 20s sharing an residence complicated on Melrose Place in Los Angeles.
Although a short-lived CBS Studios/CW revival got here to fruition in 2009, following a brand new group residing at Melrose Place, Leighton mentioned the reboot would draw from the mothership present.
“The concept is what occurs to those individuals 30 years later,” she defined. “There’s all these fan tales, all these nice conspiracies and people are simply splendidly artistic concepts, an instance of everyone’s curiosity in the place they might be. We had been such a simple group of individuals. We liked one another then. We will’t consider something higher than to come back again collectively and inform a brand new story quickly.”
