Sophia Bush Says One Tree Hill Reboot Is Nonetheless Not ‘Official’

Sophia Bush is setting the file straight on the place issues stand with the One Tree Hill reboot.

On the Sept. 19 episode of her podcast Drama Queens, Bush, 42 and co-host Robert Buckley answered fan questions on the reboot, which Bush and Hilarie Burton teased on Instagram in August.

Whereas Bush famous she “cannot inform anybody something” fairly but, she shed some new gentle on the sequence, which PEOPLE confirmed was within the early phases of improvement.

“What I can say is that after, God, near half a decade of those conversations, we have been in a position to all kind of divide and conquer within the coolest means. And people of us with TV producing expertise are having some actually thrilling conversations,” she revealed.

“It has been in improvement for a while. I feel that is all I can say,” she continued.

“However, yeah, it has been this expertise and actually even longer than we have had this excellent present [podcasts]. However, the experiences we have had with the followers who’ve regularly requested the best questions and made us take into consideration, you already know, the place our entire ragtag gang of people can be at this level [is what] has prompted the concepts. So I feel that is all I can say on this podcast, however I do hope we now have thrilling updates, and I hope we get nice information, and we now have an enormous announcement.”

Bush, who performed Brooke Davis on all 9 seasons of the WB present, admitted, although, that she wasn’t thrilled with how the information of the reboot’s improvement broke.

“Do I want that the information hadn’t leaked earlier than we may announce it was official? Certain. But when it occurs, I can be so freaking proud, very like we mentioned, that each single particular person will get to convey their experience to the desk now.”

As she famous that amongst the present’s alums are “TV and movie producers,” “music producers” and “novel writers,” she gushed, “There’s a lot expertise on this particular group of circus performers that we’re, and I do not know… If every part works out, it will simply be so nice. We obtained an enormous bench now.”

Buckley, who performed Clay Evans and joined One Tree Hill in season 7, echoed his co-host. “The roster is deep,” he mentioned of the present alumni they might pull from for the reboot. “I used to be truly enthusiastic about that this morning. I used to be simply going, you will have a homicide’s row of individuals you may usher in right here. Like, there’s simply heavy hitters from begin to end.”

He agreed that it “sucks the information obtained leaked,” calling it “a disservice to the followers, since you’re getting them enthusiastic about one thing that probably couldn’t occur.” However regardless, “It is also tremendous thrilling.”

“If I used to be a betting man, I might say it is gonna occur,” Buckley, 43, added. “Effectively, and I am hoping it occurs. Fingers crossed. However figuring out it is y’all, I feel I feel it is gonna occur.”

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One Tree Hill will be streamed in full on Hulu and Max.