A snapshot of Wisteria Lane back in the day?
Desperate Housewives could be getting a prequel series! That’s according to its creator Marc Cherry, who says he’s being asked about a reboot by “about 70,000 people”.
The show creator is still in contact with the show’s main stars, and told People Magazine that he has “couple of ideas to do it”.
‘Desperate Housewives’ creator reveals he wants to do a prequel series:
“I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in like 1966.” pic.twitter.com/q0cRAi5zXW
— Pop Base (@PopBase) November 27, 2024
“I ran into a lot of people including Marcia [Cross] when Eva Longoria got her star on the Walk of Fame," he shares. "I had Felicity [Huffman] over a few months ago. Brenda Strong and I are making plans together. And Doug Savant's brother actually lives on my street, so I'll bump into Doug occasionally too.”
“I loved my cast and I treasure those people — every time I run into one of them, we pick up as if no time has passed at all."
"I'm grateful to them," he added, “You can write a really great script, but unless you get the right actors to say the words correctly, it doesn't make much of a difference. I've had a couple of pilots where I don't think I got the right cast, but in that one, the casting gods were with me. I lucked out."
But would he cast the same actors again in a reboot? Probably not.
“I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade," Cherry explains. "Because the character I miss writing the most is actually Wisteria Lane.”
“That was the most fun playground anyone in the history of television has ever had, because we owned the whole street. I know that street like the back of my hand. When someone shoots a commercial on that street, I know it instantly, because I know all those houses, I know the geography. It was such a fun place to write for. And there's times when I go, 'You know what? I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in like, 1966.' "
The Desperate Housewives in the swinging 60s? Sign us up!
Tune in to World Wide Reb, weekday mornings at 8.45am on 98FM's Big Breakfast for all the latest entertainment news ?
