Gossip Girl Producers Discuss the Show and its Spinoff - 青少年影集

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As you surely know by now, Gossip Girl is getting ready to spin off a new
show - one that would be set well before the soap's
teen characters were born.

The May 11 episode of the CW show will serve as the pilot for a potential new
series from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, co-creators of Gossip Girl.

The Gossip Girl spinoff, which doesn't have a title yet, would chronicle the
high school adventures of Lily van der Woodsen, a former wild child turned
society matron who is played by Kelly Rutherford on Gossip Girl.

The younger Lily hasn't been cast yet, but Schwartz said the show would
chronicle the high schooler's adventures in the Los Angeles of the '80s.

"I'm very influenced by the '80s, as is Stephanie," Schwartz said in a recent
interview with the Chicago Tribune. "A couple of movies we've talked about
are Valley Girl and Less Than Zero, which are tonally very different movies.
But that period of L.A. in the '80s, the Sunset Strip [music scene] of the
time, the idea of coming over the hill into L.A. if you lived in the Valley -
that is just something that fascinates us. It's a very romantic, exciting
time."

Gossip Girl is based on a book series that has its own spinoff line of novels
under the name It Girl. But the producers weren't interested in making It
Girl or a clone of the Monday drama about rich teens on New York's Upper East
Side.

"We didn't want to do a spinoff just to do it," Josh Schwartz said.

"For us to do another teen drama, after Gossip Girl and The O.C. [which both
Savage and Schwartz worked on], it needed to be something that really excited
us creatively. This felt like an unusual way to go for a spinoff, but that's
what got us fired up about it."

Schwartz's other show, Chuck, is very different from both The O.C. and Gossip
Girl (although pop-culture references are a constant on all three).

Similarly, the new series will have its own vibe, even though the Gossip Girl
creators haven't fully decided what that will be yet.

"The tone will be different, it's a whole new set of characters. You'll get
to meet [Lily's] sister Carol and this whole other group of people that she
lives with," he said.

"I think it'll feel very different. I actually think, in some ways, it can be
broader than Gossip Girl, although Gossip Girl skews older than people think,
in terms of its median age. I think there are a lot of people who could watch
the [new] show with their kids, nostalgically. Most of our teen audience -
their parents were teens in the '80s."

Alexandra Patsavas, who served as music supervisor for The O.C. and performs
that duty for Gossip Girl (as well as several other shows), is currently
digging up choice '80s tunes for the new show. Schwartz underlined the idea
that the spinoff won't be using the same few '80s tunes that most of us have
heard way too many times.

"We can go deeper than that," Schwartz said.

"There's a lot of stuff out there that's been kind of forgotten or hasn't yet
been rediscovered yet, and no one is more up to the task of finding that than
Alex."

As for whether the CW will pick up the show for fall, that has yet to be
determined. Gossip Girl has not always done well in the ratings, but it's
very popular online and on iTunes, and the soap gets more than its share of
media coverage.

"We feel like the success of the [spinoff] lies in a greater picture, and
ratings are a part of that," Schwartz said.

He was mostly mum when asked about what's coming up on Gossip Girl, and he
wouldn't comment on whether we'll see Dan and Serena's secret half-brother
again.

Schwartz did say that Michelle Trachtenberg would be back around April and
May as troublemaker Georgina Sparks, and Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Blair
(Leighton Meester) would remain at the forefront of the show.


噹噹! 季末G魔女又要來了 標準的終結者

Chair還是會繼續在第二季的第一線

"We get that that [relationship] works for people," Schwartz said with a
laugh.

這就是所謂的應觀眾要求嗎 @@"

He also said many of the show's characters "graduate at the end of this year
- that's going to be a very big deal and it will shape direction of Gossip
Girl heading into Season 3."


第三季就是college秀了 大學生能幹嘛呢 ?

不知道 他們高中已經比我們大學還精彩了 Orz

但是美國大學生的Fraternity可是很瘋的

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我想當一個壞人.

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