In the original concept, Meg Ryan would have played the “older” voice of the lead character, just as Bob Saget did for Josh Radner in the original series.
In an interview at the TCA press tour, Glenn Gellar revealed that CBS hasn’t actually seen anything related to the How I Met Your Father pitch.
Throw all of that out the window for the new concept, which is being penned by This Is Us writers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger.
We’re expecting it to be quite a bit different than the original pitch, if only because CBS passed on the original concept which would have starred Greta Gerwig as a woman who moves in with her brother after her marriage ends.