Nine years after Gilmore Girls ended in 2007, the world of Stars Hollow returned to television screens once again in Netflix’s 2016 miniseries A Year in the Life. Nearly a decade later, fans are still clamoring for more Gilmore.
“Well, I think if Amy [Sherman-Palladino, showrunner] is talking about maybe a Christmas special and then Lauren [Graham] is repeating that, I think there’s intention there, so I am ever hopeful and I think the fans are too,” Scott Patterson, revealed exclusively in Us Weekly’s latest cover story, on newsstands now. “This is the one question that [fans] have in common, and I wish I had a definitive answer, but I don’t… I’m sure it’ll happen. Maybe.”
Patterson, 67, is referring to Sherman-Palladino’s comments at PaleyFest in March: “We never said never because we didn’t actually intend to do the [revival] for Netflix. Then, we all got together for a panel… and we went to a bar afterwards. We all thought, Well, this was fun! Let’s just do it again!”
At that event, she also told Us she wanted “to get back in Lauren’s face on a daily basis,” while her husband and collaborator, Dan Palladino, added: “Maybe it’s not the end, who knows?”
Graham, 58, added fuel to the fire at the Emmy Awards on September 14, where she reunited with Gilmore Girls costar Alexis Bledel to present the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series award.
“I thought we were done with that conversation, and I realized we are not,” Graham told The Hollywood Reporter on the awards show red carpet. “I’ve been saying for a long time what I could see making sense is a Christmas movie in the tradition of Downton Abbey or those other kinds of shows that are over but then kind of come together, especially around the holidays. I think that would be very Gilmore-friendly.”
Meanwhile, Patterson took a stab at imagining where his character would be in 2025.
“I think Luke and Lorelai in the past, what, eight or nine years since the reboot, I think they’ve definitely had a child or two,” he told Us. “That’s gonna creep some people out, you know, because we’re getting up there in age, but you know what, I feel really young, and I love kids, and I just want to see them with kids. I do.”
Scott Cohen, who played Max Medina on the original series, weighed in with his own thoughts.
“Would I like to see it come back again? Yeah, of course. I mean, I don’t think I’d love to see it come back again without me in it,” he told Us with a laugh at the A Weekend in the Life convention in New Milford, Connecticut, on September 13. “But sure, for everybody that loves Gilmore Girls, that’d be fantastic. I’m sure it would be interesting.”
Cohen, 63, thinks Rory would be “fantastic” as a mother. (A Year in the Life ended with her character revealing that she was pregnant, meaning at this point she could have an 8 year old.) While he jokes that Max Medina is “very sad” and thinks about Lorelai “all the time,” truthfully, Cohen thinks his character would be just fine.
“I think he has a family. I think he’s a very good father. I think he’s a good husband,” he told Us. “I think that he’s probably the principal of Chilton. He’s probably the principal somewhere, and he’s a great educator and moves people.”
Tanc Sade, who played Finn, member of the Life and Death Brigade and friend to Rory and Logan in the later seasons of Gilmore Girls and the revival as well, seems confident the show will return one day.
“I think it’ll happen,” he told Us at the convention. “I wonder where Rory would be today, right?”
His pitch: “Alright. We have a revival. Rory has an 8 year old. And then there’s a spinoff between Rory and the 8 year old. And Finn’s the uncle. The godfather.”
“Gilmore Guys” podcaster Kevin T. Porter believes Warner Bros. Television has “some sort of something cooking,” if only to protect its IP.
“Internally, it would be in everyone’s best interests [to have] the conversation,” he told Us. “What’s the version of this we can do? Can we do a version in five or six years where Rory is the mom and Lorelai is the grandmother she has a strange relationship with?”
He adds: “I think it’s a matter of time.”
Amy Sherman-Palladino, your move. Where you lead, we will follow.
