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On Tuesday, May 14, Prime Video announced that it has ordered a Legal blonde prequel series, titled Ellafrom Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine media company.
Witherspoon, 48, will executive produce the series alongside Lauren Neustadter, Lauren Kisilevsky, Marc Platt and creator Laura Kittrell, who has written for series such as Uncertain and high school.
Ella will follow Elle Woods through her high school years, long before she became the nation’s top lawyer in pink. According to an announcement shared with PEOPLE, the prequel deals with “the life experiences that shaped her into the iconic young woman we came to know and love at the beginning Legal blonde movie.”
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(L-R) Reese Witherspoon and show host Laura Kittrell.
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Witherspoon, who originated the role of Ella Woods in the 2001 classic, said in a statement that she “couldn’t be more excited” about the upcoming series.
“Fans will learn how Elle Woods navigated her world as a teenager with her own unique personality and ingenuity, in ways that only our beloved Elle could. What could be better than that?!” the Big little lies said the actress. “I am extremely grateful to the amazing teams at Prime Video and Hello Sunshine – along with our amazing writer Laura Kittrell – for making this dream of mine come true. Legal blonde is back!”
Vernon Sanders, head of television at Amazon MGM Studios, called the fictional Harvard Law graduate “one of the most quotable, iconic and beloved characters that is ingrained in the fabric of Hollywood history.”
“We are honored to bring her origin story to our global Prime Video customers,” Sanders added of the show, which will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories. “Reese and Hello Sunshine’s vision for this series, combined with Laura Kittrell’s winning voice, made this series completely undeniable.”
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Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods in ‘Legally Blonde’.
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It was previously thought that Witherspoon would reprise her role in the third Legal blonde movie after she posted a video of herself wearing a pink sequined bikini at a blue pool.
“It’s true,” she captioned the June 2018 video.
Next year, she said Party tonight that she “had a great time” working on the script, but nothing was filmed.
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MGM originally announced a May 2022 release date for the film, but that has since been pushed back.
Mindy Kaling, who was tapped to co-write the third installment with Dan Goor (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), resolved the delay in March 2022 TIME interview, saying they “didn’t want to be responsible for destroying what was essentially Reese’s the Avengers franchise.”
Kaling, 44, listed questions the script needed to answer, including, “What’s Elle Woods like at 42? Will she end up being everything she wanted? How does this personality manifest itself in an adult woman? Has she become more cynical? Her clarity and her cheerfulness really worked when she was 22, but how has life changed her perspective?”
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Legal blonde and Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blue stream on Max.
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