Deadline is reporting that newcomer Savannah Smith has been cast in a lead role for HBO Max’s upcoming Gossip Girl reboot series, joining Code Black’s Emily Alyn Lind.
The 10-episode series will be executive produced by Safran with Fake Empire’s Schwartz and Savage alongside Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo of Alloy Entertainment.
The original Gossip Girl’s Kristen Bell will narrate the new series, which hails from Joshua Safran, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire, Alloy Entertainment, Warner Bros. TV, and CBS Television Studios.
Like the original series, the new iteration of Gossip Girl, written by Joshua Safran, is based on the book by Cecily von Ziegesar.